Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.

…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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

    • wombatula
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      1 year ago

      You have not experienced Machiavelli until you have read him in the original Romulan!