The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThe new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
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