Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.

After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.

The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

We all leave unfinished work; we cannot complete it; those who come after us take it up and conform it to their will

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

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

Change begets change.

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.