Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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I have no secrets.
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I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
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It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
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Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
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The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
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Sphinxes without secrets.
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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
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You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.
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The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
