Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

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.

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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

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Men are ruled by toys.

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In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.

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I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

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Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

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The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes.

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

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Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

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'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

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