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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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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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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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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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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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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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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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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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