Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

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• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

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• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

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• I don't like possessions.

  

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• I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

  

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• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

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• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

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• I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
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• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

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• In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
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• There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.

  

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• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

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  • Real
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• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

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• 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

  

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• All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

  

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• My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

  

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• My life is my message.

  

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• French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.

  

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• Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?

  

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  • War
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• The change Twitter has wrought on language itself is nothing compared with the change it is bringing to the study of language.

  

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• All gardening is landscape painting.

  

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• By the word 'liberty' they meant liberty for property, not liberty for persons.

  

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• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Study
  • Prince