Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIIt is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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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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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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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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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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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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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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