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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIMen 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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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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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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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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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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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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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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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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