Michael > Michael's Quotes

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
― Machiavelli Niccolo

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.”
― James Dean

“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”
― Patricia Briggs, Raven's Shadow

“And believe me, darling, there's no man more faithful than a reformed playboy. They make far better husbands than men who haven't had time to sow their wild oats before they marry, so go off the rails at about forty-five because they suddenly realise that they've missed out on life and if they don't hurry up it's going to be too late.”
― Sally Wentworth, Flying High

“What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.”
― Théophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin

“A true lover must know how to receive as well as to give.”
― Douglas Carlton Abrams, The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love

“Seduction and passion are simply life longing for life”
― Douglas Carlton Abrams, The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love

“To give love to one who needs it is a far greater pleasure than to receive it.”
― Douglas Carlton Abrams, The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love

“Is it the beloved who evokes love, or the lover who has love to give?”
― Douglas Carlton Abrams, The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love