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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThis first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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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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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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