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... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

… When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.
– Niccol Machiavelli

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  1. In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast. – Niccol Machiavelli
  2. Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves. – Niccol Machiavelli
  3. He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command – Niccol Machiavelli
  4. The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccol Machiavelli
  5. These opportunities, then, gave these men the chance they needed, and their great abilities made them recognize it. – Niccol Machiavelli
  6. Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain. – Niccol Machiavelli
  7. It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity. – Niccol Machiavelli
  8. Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight – Niccol Machiavelli
  9. To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people – Niccol Machiavelli
  10. Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil. – Niccol Machiavelli
  11. It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles. – Niccol Machiavelli
  12. Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. – Niccol Machiavelli
  13. A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor. – Niccol Machiavelli
  14. … War is the sole art looked for in one who rules… – Niccol Machiavelli
  15. Never do an enemy a small injury. – Niccol Machiavelli
  16. Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. – Niccol Machiavelli
  17. at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned – Niccol Machiavelli
  18. It is better to lose friends than to lose your reputation, and better to lose riches than to lose your integrity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  19. It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. – Marcel Proust
  20. I would rather devote myself to what I always did – trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself. – Kavita Kan
  21. Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
  22. People are so worried about being accepted that it causes them to lose themselves and in turn, lose moments. – Dominic Riccitello
  23. There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer. – Vineet Raj Kapoor
  24. We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill. – Marc Goodman
  25. He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around. – Margaret Atwood
  26. She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away. – James Baldwin
  27. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms. – Richelle Mead
  28. Here we are,Arms in arms,Hearts to heartsWaiting in a haunted stop,For the sky to fall,When the world ends to a knot,We will rise into one. – Thilsath
  29. The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace. – Thomas More
  30. Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other. – John Webster
  31. You don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. – Neil Gaiman
  32. I’m feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another. – Christopher Moore
  33. Apparently, the princes had found the only four women in the universes who didn’t dream of being royal, rich and adored by their husbands. – Michelle M Pillow
  34. Two princes. Fine men indeed. But neither is the prince of my heart. – Coleen Murtagh Paratore
  35. You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes. – Kiera C
  36. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts – CS Lewis
  37. Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all. – Criss Jami
  38. Truly I am God’s Beauty, His Trophy, His Outstretched Arms…I am here for His Glory and Pleasure. – Jaachynma NE Agu
  39. The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things. – Luke Slattery
  40. Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity. – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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