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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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All Detail Less Offense Once Severities Suddenness
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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Must Nature People Prince Understand
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Always Deceive Find One Themselvesm Deceive
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Dispatch Force Ofen Opportunity Rob Tardiness
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Fickle Gain General Greedy Hypocritical Man Mankind
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Honest Honor Men Title
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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Destroy Generous heavy Injury Men One Revenge Sight
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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Broken Give Necessity Past Present Promise Work
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Better Both Fear Love One
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Cleaner Escape Hourglass More Sand Through
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Evil Gain Good Hatred Much
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Fear Inspire Men Offend Shrink
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Contempt Country Decay Religion See Sign Sure
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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Destry Injure Men Merely Offend Ought Retailable Unable Vengeance
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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Acquire Admitted Common Condemned More Nature Praise Succeed Wish
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Command Know Must Obey Wish

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