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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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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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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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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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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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