#ang

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#beauty #bible #book #else #english

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#elements #far #governments #more #other

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#always #establishment #leaves #open #others

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#conduct #constant #desires #his #must

Never was anything great achieved without danger. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#achieved #anything #danger #never #without

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#changing #i #person #time

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#happy #i #king #me #perhaps

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#decision #less #life-changing #like #more

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#autumn #because #cousins #day #easter