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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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Achievement Anything Danger Great never Without
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Interest Overthrow Preserve Status
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Conceal Enemy Enterprise Execution Likely More No Ripe
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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Among Fact Man Necessarily Some Virtuous
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Change Conduct Constant Desire Must Success Time
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Deceive Deceiver Double Pressure
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
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Dispatch Force Ofen Opportunity Rob Tardiness
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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Another Find Men Moment Simple Suffer Tricked Yield
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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Ambition Another Attack Men Other Secure Seek Themselves
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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Fear Love More Much Secure
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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Adapt Clash Demand Likewise One Policy Time
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Honest Honor Men Title
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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Acquire Admitted Common Condemned More Nature Praise Succeed Wish
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Break Lack Legitimate Neck Prince Promise
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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All Aspire Breast Element Four Frame Mind Nature Regiment Teach

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