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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You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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.
