Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to

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. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. – Gustave Flaubert

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The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along. – Thomas R. Dewar

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Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a females success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon. – Mika Brzezinski

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