Quotes About Consequences

For these reasons Louis the Twelfth, King of France, quickly occupied Milan, and as quickly lost it; and to turn him out the first time it only needed Lodovico's own forces; because those who had opened the gates to him, finding themselves deceived in their hopes of future benefit, would not endure the ill-treatment of the new prince.

It is so far from how one lives to how one should live that he who lets go of what is done for what should be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation

que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso causa su propia ruina. Porque es natural que el que se ha vuelto poderoso recele de la misma astucia o de la misma fuerza gracias a las cuales se lo ha ayudado.

es que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso provoca su propia ruina.

Quien propicia que otro se vuelva poderoso obra su propia ruina.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin by the great number who are not good.

Przeto gdy krzywdzi siÄ™ czÅ'owieka, nale?y czyni? to w ten sposób, aby nie trzeba byÅ'o obawia? siÄ™ zemsty

que no debemos dejar nacer un desorden para evitar una guerra, pues acabamos no evitándola, y sólo la diferimos, lo que redunda a la postre en perjuicio nuestro.

quien promueve el que otro se convierta en poderoso labra su ruina, porque ese poder lo ha provocado o con la astucia o con la fuerza, y tanto la una como la otra resultan sospechosas al que se ha convertido en poderoso.

Z?o, poznane z daleka leczy si? szybko, lecz gdy wskutek tego, ?e nie zosta?o rozpoznane, pozwala si? na jego wzrost, tak ?e ka?dy je rozpozna, nie ma ju? lekarstwa

Ne zaman bir sak?ncadan kaçmaya çal??sak bir baÅŸkas?na düÅŸeriz; ama saÄŸduyu, sak?ncalar?n niteliklerini tan?may? ve en az kötüyü iyi olarak seçmeyi bilmek demektir.

KiÅŸinin nas?l yaÅŸad??? ve nas?l yaÅŸamas? gerektiÄŸi aras?nda öyle büyük bir uçurum vard?r ki, yap?lmas? gereken uÄŸruna yap?lan? terk eden kiÅŸi, çok geçmeden korunmas?n? deÄŸil, y?k?m?n? öÄŸrenmiÅŸ olur.

Así pasa en las cosas del Estado: los males que nacen en él, cuando se los descubre a tiempo, lo que sólo es dado al hombre sagaz, se los cura pronto; pero ya no tienen remedio cuando, por no haberlos advertido, se los deja crecer hasta el punto de que todo el mundo los ve.

Los florentinos, que carecían de ejércitos propios, trajeron diez mil franceses para conquistar a Pisa; y esta resolución les hizo correr más peligros de los que corrieran nunca en ninguna época. El emperador de Constantinopla, para ayudar a sus vecinos, puso en Grecia diez mil turcos, los cuales, una vez concluida la guerra, se negaron a volver a su patria; de donde empezó la servidumbre de Grecia bajo el yugo de los infieles.

E chi crede che ne' personaggi grandi e' benefizii nuovi faccino dimenticare le iniurie vecchie, s'inganna. Errò, adunque, el duca in questa elezione; e fu cagione dell'ultima ruina sua.

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)

He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made powerful.

My studies in criminology have suggested to me that only generals, Harley Street specialists and mine owners can get away with murder successfully.

Guilt could be as simple as that. There didn't have to be anything maudlin or self-pitying about it. It was a fact and you lived with the consequences, a kind of contract under which your actions led to inevitable obligations.

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.

If he weren't so damn cute, none of this would have happened.

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

By the time she got back to work, the only thing Gabby knew for certain was that as forgiving as he'd been, she'd never live down what she'd done, and since there wasn't a rock large enough to crawl under, it was in her best interest to find a way to avoid him.