The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
- Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
- Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
- 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.
- It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
- 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.
- There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
- Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
- There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
- Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
- One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
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- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.