One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
- War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
- There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
- Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
- A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
- Never was anything great achieved without danger.
- No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
- One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
- A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
- Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
- Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
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