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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLINever was anything great achieved without danger.
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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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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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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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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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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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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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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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