Machiavellianism Psychology Quotes

#1. Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

Baron De Montesquieu

#2. When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

Randy Alcorn

#3. In Sanskrit, "independent woman" is a synonym for a harlot. Hence the woman who is unattached to a man is not only a universal feminine type but a sacral type in antiquity.

Erich Neumann

#4. For once, I can feel everything. Every emotion, every feeling, every sense. I've never felt so alive. How ironic.

Karina Halle

#5. Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

Clifton Fadiman

#6. Breckin shrugs. "I'm new here. And if you haven't deducted from my impeccable fashion sense, I think it's safe to say that I'm ... " he leans forward and cups his hand to his mouth in secrecy. "Mormon," he whispers.

Colleen Hoover

#7. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful.

Marissa Meyer

#8. I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.

Pierre Laval

#9. Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

George Henry Lewes