Change has no constituency.
Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?
The ends justifies the means.
Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.
Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.