Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIMen 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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But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Before all else, be armed.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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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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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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 ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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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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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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