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“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Appear as you may wish to be”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death: I pass indeed into their world.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli : A Selection

“Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.”
― Niccolo Machiavellu

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory. It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning. Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“Truth - more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality - is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes.”
― Ray Dalio

“If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.”
― Ray Dalio

“I learned that if you work hard and creatively, you can have just about anything you want, but not everything you want. Maturity is the ability to reject good alternatives in order to pursue even better ones.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Having the basics—a good bed to sleep in, good relationships, good food, and good sex—is most important, and those things don’t get much better when you have a lot of money or much worse when you have less. And the people one meets at the top aren’t necessarily more special than those one meets at the bottom or in between.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Imagine that in order to have a great life you have to cross a dangerous jungle. You can stay safe where you are and have an ordinary life, or you can risk crossing the jungle to have a terrific life. How would you approach that choice? Take a moment to think about it because it is the sort of choice that, in one form or another, we all have to make.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Unattainable goals appeal to heroes,”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work