It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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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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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Before all else, be armed.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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