"For the gap between how people actually behave and how they ought to behave is so great that anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover he had been taught how to destroy himself, not how to preserve himself."
—Machiavelli, The Prince (via hystericacoustic)
Posted at 1:03 PM - August 20, 2012. source.
"It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles."
—Niccolo Machiavelli (via philosophy-quotes)
Posted at 1:58 PM - June 27, 2012. source.
"Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are."
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (via wow-realoriginal)
Posted at 2:07 AM - May 10, 2012. source.
"Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred."
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli (via livelaughspin)
Posted at 12:44 PM - March 04, 2012. source.
"For the gap between how people actually behave and how they ought to behave is so great that anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover he has been taught how to destroy himself, not how to preserve himself."
—Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (via one-oneness)
Posted at 12:28 PM - March 04, 2012. source.