Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLISo that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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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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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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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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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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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Before all else, be armed.
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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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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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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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