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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Fear Inspire Men Offend Shrink
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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Conduct Difficult Introduce More New Order Success Thing Uncertain
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Command Know Must Obey Wish
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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Commit Conquer Demolish Error Except Great Ruin Town
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Fickle Gain General Greedy Hypocritical Man Mankind
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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Adult Childhood Crazy Distinction Ego Fell Individual Love One Probably Purpose Some Useful
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Interest Overthrow Preserve Status
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Better Both Fear Love One
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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Among Fact Man Necessarily Some Virtuous
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Always Deceive Find One Themselvesm Deceive
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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Around Estimate First Him Intelligence Look Men Method Ruler
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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Fear Love More Much Secure
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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Arm Come Destroy Prophet Victorious
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Achievement Anything Danger Great never Without
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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All Aspire Breast Element Four Frame Mind Nature Regiment Teach
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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Advantage Avoid Postpone War

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