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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The first way to lose a state is to neglect the art of war; the first way to gain a state is to be skilled in the art of war.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
I consider tragedy the highest form of art.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.
— Nick Murray
Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor ...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
In war, discipline can do more than fury.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
If you stop focusing on all the reasons why you can't do it, you just may surprise yourself to see what you can do.
— Frank Sonnenberg
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
... War is the sole art looked for in one who rules...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.
— Raymond Chandler
One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.
— Philip Schaff
... to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Welcome to Neverland, Gwendolyn
— Lisa Maxwell
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
— Alex Gibney
Life is always just to learn.
— Will Advise