No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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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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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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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