Everyone sees what you appear to be, but few perceive what you are.
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Quotations by Machiavelli
The 4 quotations by Machiavelli, each linked to the position it expresses.
Relation
Territory
I judge it may be true that fortune is the arbiter of half our actions, but that she still leaves the other half, or nearly so, for us to govern.
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It has seemed to me more fitting to go directly to the effectual truth of the thing than to the imagination of it. Many have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in truth.
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One must therefore be a fox to recognize snares, and a lion to frighten off the wolves.
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