The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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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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Before all else, be armed.
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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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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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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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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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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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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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