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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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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Benefit Drop Hand More Ough Relish
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Difficult Great Willingness
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Fear Inspire Men Offend Shrink
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Excellent First Good Kind Second Third Useless
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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Commit Conquer Demolish Error Except Great Ruin Town
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Archive Attribute Either Fortune Virtue
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
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
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Evil Gain Good Hatred Much
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Does Finally Fool Does Man Once Wise
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Dangerous Element Far Government More Other Prince Society
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
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Commerce Confidence Cowardice Distrust Either Hatred Offend People Show
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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Advantage Avoid Postpone War
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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Broken Give Necessity Past Present Promise Work
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
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Interest Overthrow Preserve Status

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