"Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which
could never have been obtained by ordinary methods."
"So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging." (Niccolò Machiavelli, "Discourses on Livy", 1531)
"[…] when a problem arises either from within a republic or outside it, one brought about either by internal or external reasons, one that has become so great that it begins to make everyone afraid, the safest policy is to delay dealing with it rather than trying to do away with it, because those who try to do away with it almost always increase its strength and accelerate the harm which they feared might come from it." (Niccolò Machiavelli, "Discourses on Livy", 1531)
"For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another
will fit."
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless." (Niccolò Machiavelli, "The Prince", 1532)
"Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations." (Niccolo Machiavelli)
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