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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Evil Gain Good Hatred Much
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Break Lack Legitimate Neck Prince Promise
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Does Finally Fool Does Man Once Wise
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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Ashamed Contrary Example God Imitate Influence Strive Such Wick
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
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Dangerous Element Far Government More Other Prince Society
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
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
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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Breath Constant Execute Executem Furnish Leisure Military Peace Plan Prince War Study
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
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Must Nature People Prince Understand
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Change Conduct Constant Desire Must Success Time
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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Acquire Admitted Common Condemned More Nature Praise Succeed Wish
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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Ancient Composite Foundation Good Inevitable Law Man State Time
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Deceive Deceiver Double Pressure
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Better Both Fear Love One
So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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Does Either Fear Indulge Injury Ought Vengeance

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