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Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman (Republic of Florence) and author; b. 1469; d. 1527
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# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532, in Work and Recreation
The Prince (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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