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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIIt is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Before all else, be armed.
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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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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His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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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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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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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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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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