Quotes by Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Quotations about Ideals and Idealism

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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

Machiavelli, Niccolo