This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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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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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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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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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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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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