"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot."
― Niccolo Machiavelli
Topic(s):
Men
More From Niccolo Machiavelli
- "Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
- "Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself."
- "The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
More In Men
- "Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."― Saint Augustine
- "I only have ‘yes’ men around me. Who needs ‘no’ men?"― Mae West
- "Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."― Ezra Pound