One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThe 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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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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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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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
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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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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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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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