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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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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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Act Arrange Free Law Lay Men Necessity Presupoose Scope State Wickedness
Politics have no relation to morals.
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Moral Politics Relation
Before all else, be armed.
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All Arm Before Isle
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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Deception Immediate Incline Lack Men Obey Simple Victim
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Dispatch Force Ofen Opportunity Rob Tardiness
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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Ambition Another Attack Men Other Secure Seek Themselves
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Interest Overthrow Preserve Status
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Cleaner Escape Hourglass More Sand Through
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Archive Attribute Either Fortune Virtue
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Fear Inspire Men Offend Shrink
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Conceal Enemy Enterprise Execution Likely More No Ripe
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Excellent First Good Kind Second Third Useless
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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Fear Love More Much Secure
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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Arm Except Hope Necessary Premise War
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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Done Fear Injury Man Severe Use Vengence
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Contempt Country Decay Religion See Sign Sure

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