Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Like
  • Him
  • Gucci

• Dancing doesn't have a language.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Language
  • Dancing

• We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Keep Going
  • One Thing

• Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Persons

• I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Home
  • Fanatics

• For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.

  

  Kamala Markandaya
  • World
  • Men
  • Money

• They are really just special young ladies. They're daughters. They're great daughters. It felt good today. It felt good to see them smile.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Smile
  • Daughters
  • Ladies

• The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Foundation
  • Relation
  • Mutual

• The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

  

  Epictetus
  • Soul
  • Companion
  • Pellucid

• What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

  

  William Matthews
  • Understanding
  • Every
  • Lasting

• I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. Because second time is like, 'OK, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Bad
  • Horrible
  • First Time

• "Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.

  

  G. Campbell Morgan
  • True
  • Nature
  • Suffering

• Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Positive
  • Love Is
  • Negative

• We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Knows
  • Effects

• He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Effects
  • Ruin
  • Preservation