Before all else, be armed.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThe 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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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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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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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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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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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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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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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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