Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIIt is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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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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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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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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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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