Machiavelli, Niccolo
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
A new system is a hard thing to put into place, it is opposed by those that would be disadvantaged by the new system and it receives no support from those that would benefit.
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the leadin the introduction of a new order to things.
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
Politics have no relation to morals.
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
