Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLINever was anything great achieved without danger.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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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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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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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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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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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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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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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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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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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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