To be feared is much safer then to be loved.
Tag: Niccolo Machiavelli
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God creates men, but they choose each other.
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
…it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.