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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
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Act Arrange Free Law Lay Men Necessity Presupoose Scope State Wickedness
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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Commerce Confidence Cowardice Distrust Either Hatred Offend People Show
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Always Deceive Find One Themselvesm Deceive
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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Away Belong Everything Glory God Share Take Willing
Before all else, be armed.
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All Arm Before Isle
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Excellent First Good Kind Second Third Useless
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Adult Childhood Crazy Distinction Ego Fell Individual Love One Probably Purpose Some Useful
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Better Both Fear Love One
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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Around Estimate First Him Intelligence Look Men Method Ruler
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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Does Finally Fool Does Man Once Wise

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