Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
Camille Paglia -
I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
Gavin Newsom -
I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
Zebulon Pike -
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
Karen Kain -
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden -
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Walter Pater
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
Lajos Kossuth -
Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.
Yves Behar -
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
Iain Sinclair -
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
Oscar Isaac -
Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
Yitzhak Shamir
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I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.
Ted Yoho -
Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei -
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Hans Hofmann -
I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
The end of the Republic has never looked better.
Barack Obama
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The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.
Tom Shadyac -
In the late 1960s, red and the low green LEDs and the infrared semiconductor lasers had already been developed, but there was no prospect of practical blue light emitters, even in the '70s.
Isamu Akasaki -
The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.
Evelyn Underhill -
It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.
Ray Bradbury -
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
William McFee -
A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli