Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
Niccolo Machiavelli