The Art of War/The Prince Quotes

“Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Art of War and the Prince

“How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.’ (ch XV)”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Art of War/The Prince