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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIIt is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Before all else, be armed.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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The 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.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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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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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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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others.
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