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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others.
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Appreciate Intelligence Kind Offer Understand
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Archive Attribute Either Fortune Virtue
Politics have no relation to morals.
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Moral Politics Relation
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
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
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Excellent First Good Kind Second Third Useless
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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Difficult Lack Love Safer Since Since Fear Together Two Must
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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Bear Despair Drive Father Inheritance Loss Qquanmity Son
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
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Destry Injure Men Merely Offend Ought Retailable Unable Vengeance
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Dispatch Force Ofen Opportunity Rob Tardiness
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Difficult Great Willingness
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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Fear Love More Much Secure
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
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Command Know Must Obey Wish
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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Against Do Faith Interest Keep Out Ruler Wise
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

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