There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIBenefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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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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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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 wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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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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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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