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Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Aging category:
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Authority category:
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Change category:
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Change category:
A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Danger category:
Never was anything great achieved without danger. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Deception category:
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Difficulty category:
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Ego category:
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Imitation category:
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Intellect category:
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Life category:
How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Mistakes category:
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Opportunity category:
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Originality category:
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Procrastination category:
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Religion category:
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Renewal category:
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous... than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely the lukewarm defense in those who gain by the new ones. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Senses category:
Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Success category:
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Niccolo Machiavelli - From the Timeliness category:
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
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