A Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud — © Niccolo Machiavelli
He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

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If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it's hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
The man who builds a factory, builds a temple.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
If Donald Trump builds the wall the way he builds Trump Towers, he'll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise.
Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.
I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
Swimming is probably my main conditioning. It gives you a full-body workout. It builds endurance, builds your lungs strong, I mean you name it. And I like that the older you get, you try to find different ways to train besides just pounding and running every day.
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