Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
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Amish Tripathi
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
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Jostein Gaarder
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays...
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Tana French
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
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Anonymous
We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Niccolo Machiavelli
Benefits should be granted little by little so that they may be better enjoyed.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed or exempt from danger.
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared for their love is held by a chain of obligation which because of men's wickedness is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit...