Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThis first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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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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 shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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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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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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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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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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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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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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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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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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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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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