A Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian - Writer
May 3, 1469 - June 21, 1527

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place.

George Soros

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

Max Lucado

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

Plato

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Frank Wedekind

The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.

John Jakes

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Knowing how to distinguish between an ideal keyword and the reality of queries will help you to refine your strategy and success as an online marketer.

Neil Patel

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

Lewis H. Lapham

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.