To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. — Niccolo Machiavelli
He who is the cause of another’s advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin. — Niccolo Machiavelli