But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWhen 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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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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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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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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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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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 more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Before all else, be armed.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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