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«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.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adults, at bottom, distinction, egos, For some, purposes, specious
«For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Manners
| Keywords:
good manners, maintained, manners, preserved
«He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
«A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern h»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
concern, lose it, prince, prudent, vices
«each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.»
«Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
done for, dreamed, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, in truth, neglects, preservation, principalities, principality, republics, self-destruction, self preservation
«The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Constitution,
Country,
Justice,
Law and lawyers,
Weapons
| Keywords:
foundations, The Chief
«The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Country,
Law and lawyers,
Weapons
| Keywords:
composite, composites, foundations, inevitably
«Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
aspiring, breasts, elements, Four elements, framed, regiment, regimented, warring
«A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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