Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli Italian: [nikkoˈlɔ mmakjaˈvɛlli]; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527), was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. (Wikipedia)
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1. Whatever business we undertake, the timing always seems wrong, and there are never perfectly favorable circumstances. He who waits for the perfect opportunity will never start a business, and if he does, he will often have a sad end.
2. It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
3. The ends justifies the means.
4. Never was anything great achieved without danger.
5. Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
6. Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
7. Men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules, wherein they are deceived because they afterward find by experience they have gone from bad to worse.