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men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.
Niccolò Machiavelli • The Prince
Você não precisa ser uma pessoa cruel e má, mas deve saber o que fazer perante a crueldade e a maldade.
Jacob Petry • Poder & Manipulação: Como entender o mundo em vinte lições extraídas de "O Príncipe", de Maquiavel (Portuguese Edition)
“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”
Robert Greene • The 48 Laws Of Power (The Modern Machiavellian Robert Greene Book 1)
Machiavelli teaches that in a world where so many are not good, you must learn to be able to not be good. The virtues taught in our secular and religious schools are incompatible with the virtues one must practice to safeguard those same institutions. . . . Machiavelli has long been called a teacher of evil. The author of “The Prince” never urged
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como se diz que Alexandre Magno imitava a Aquiles, César aAlexandre, Cipião a Ciro.
Nicolau Maquiavel • O Príncipe (Portuguese Edition)
The Italian republics, Florence and Venice, were often loth to give sweeping powers to a soldier. It meant paying a high salary as well as running the risks of a military coup. There was a lingering belief that it was better to employ all the good condottieri available and hope that they would seek to excel each other, even if cooperation between
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