Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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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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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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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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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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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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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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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 promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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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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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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