Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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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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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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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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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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