Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIMen shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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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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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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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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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 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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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