War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIBenefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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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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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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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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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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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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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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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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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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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