Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLINever was anything great achieved without danger.
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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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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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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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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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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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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.
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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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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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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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