No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLII’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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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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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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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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