…people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
Tag: Niccolo Machiavelli
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One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.
Hatred may be engendered by good deeds as well as bad ones.
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.
Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.