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Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.


Niccolò Machiavelli

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DEYTH BANGER When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
ERIC HOFFER Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
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J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...
MARCEL PROUST Are all men bad?"
"Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never...
OSCAR WILDE So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under c...
KARL MARX Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
ROBERT HEINLEIN The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in th...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become c...
G.K. CHESTERTON When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCAL We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER Men become old, but they never become good
OSCAR WILDE Men become old, but they never become good.
OSCAR WILDE dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before t...
ANDY WARHOL Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta...
MARQUIS DE SADE Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.
ALAN HOLBROOK I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would v...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
OVID Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
WOODROW WILSON Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: "They do not like cats because the cat is fr...
ROBERT ZARETSKY Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never...
CICERO Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrender...
THOMAS CARLYLE Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under ...
KARL MARX When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans
MARCUS AURELIUS Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought ...
MENCIUS Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought ...
MENCIUS In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion f...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just about as well as those who are alway...
ROBERT C. EDWARDS The public is entitled to as much information as we can possibly give them about these kinds of offe...
DAVE NELSON There's doubt in trying.
Just do it or stop thinking.
TOBA BETA For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
SIMON WIESENTHAL The doctor gave me several warnings: Never tell anyone unless necessary, because I might be ostraciz...
KURT EICHENWALD But remember what drives a man; real men do what they have to do to make sure their people are taken...
STEVE HARVEY Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She o...
BRANDON SANDERSON It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anyt...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as the...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO We start out with basic things like 'milk,' 'more,' 'please' and 'eat' - things that are important t...
MICHELLE ALLEN I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as ...
JILL CARROLL Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not ...
JEFF SMITH The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until...
MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Wishes are free, unless you forget they are not real for then they become expensive.
JIM GENOVESE I just have work to do; I just do it.
IAN MACKAYE Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that...
TOBA BETA Challenges are a part of life, either they make you or break you...
PHILIP T. M. Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it j...
LAINI TAYLOR Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they hav...
LORI GREINER Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train...
OSCAR ISAAC Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot ...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH I'll do it even better this time. ...They may think there's nothing they can do about it, but they c...
JAMES ELLIOTT ...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
WOODROW WILSON To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vit...
MARQUIS DE SADE Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents nev...
ERMA BOMBECK When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate...
ERIC HOFFER Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try ...
AMELIA EARHART Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you...
DON KING I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls...
BUDDHA I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls...
G. K. CHESTERTON I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do s...
WILLIAM HEWLETT Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old agai...
CINDY MORGAN But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very na...
RAINER MARIA RILKE There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings ...
ELLEN G. WHITE But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you beca...
D.H. LAWRENCE You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER Bullies do not just wake up and decide to be one. They are people who have or are experiencing emoti...
KEMI SOGUNLE The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and th...
CYRUS H. K CURTIS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and tho...
CYRUS H. CURTIS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and thos...
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G. K. CHESTERTON Some dudes just know what they know, and they are fine with it. They might obsess with sex as much a...
ROBERTO HOGUE When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore every...
RANDY PAUSCH It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't h...
WALTER LINN It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't...
WALTER LINN It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't h...
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI … to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive.
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... Whoever becomes master of a city accustomed to live in freedom and does no destroy it, may recko...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Verträge bricht man um des Nutzens willen.
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Before all else, be armed.
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I hope and hoping feeds my pain
I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
I laugh but the lau...
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gi...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even t...
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Politics have no relation to morals.
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits...
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are b...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need go...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fa...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfie...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to ha...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them onc...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it doe...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Never was anything great achieved without danger
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the pa...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been out...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if th...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would l...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gi...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The ends justifies the means
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine au...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in real...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those d...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victi...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregar...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI May princes know then that they begin to lose (their) state at that hour in which they begin to brea...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of fa...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy o...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your ow...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of t...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either throu...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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