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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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Fear Love More Much Secure
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Break Lack Legitimate Neck Prince Promise
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Difficult Great Willingness
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Dispatch Force Ofen Opportunity Rob Tardiness
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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Adapt Clash Demand Likewise One Policy Time
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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Around Estimate First Him Intelligence Look Men Method Ruler
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Cleaner Escape Hourglass More Sand Through
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Honest Honor Men Title
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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Commit Conquer Demolish Error Except Great Ruin Town
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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Difficult Lack Love Safer Since Since Fear Together Two Must
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Conceal Enemy Enterprise Execution Likely More No Ripe
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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Ancient Composite Foundation Good Inevitable Law Man State Time
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Fear Inspire Men Offend Shrink
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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Done Fear Injury Man Severe Use Vengence
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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Act Arrange Free Law Lay Men Necessity Presupoose Scope State Wickedness
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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Must Nature People Prince Understand

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