God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLINature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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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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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
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Before all else, be armed.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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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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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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