Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

  

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• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

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• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  

  Florence King
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• I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• The surface is all you get of me.

  

  Gary Hume
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• He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
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• The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Oscar Peterson
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• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
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• I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

  

  Action Bronson
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• I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!

  

  Fleur East
  • Work
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• My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.

  

  RaeLynn
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• When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

  

  Edmund White
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• I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
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• I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
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• It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
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• I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

  

  Larry Flynt
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• When one goes to school, you don't have any idea of what you're going to learn. But as each day passes, you learn things. I believe sport is the same way. Some guys are born with a talent. But you have to nurture that talent and continue to learn.

  

  Carlos Ruiz
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• In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.

  

  Sarah Vowell
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• Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

  

  John Donne
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• I can hardly understand the Australian accent.

  

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• When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Obligation
  • Receive