"Men are always averse to enterprises in..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
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“For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.”
“Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.”
“The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.”
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“Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.”
“The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.”
“The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”
More on Challenge
“If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.”
“The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.”
“Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.”