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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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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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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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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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Conceal Enemy Enterprise Execution Likely More No Ripe
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
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Destry Injure Men Merely Offend Ought Retailable Unable Vengeance
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Evil Gain Good Hatred Much
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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Among Cause Contemptible Disarmed Disgraceful Ebit Guard Other Prince Render Thing
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
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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All Determine Inflict Injury Must Need New Once Ruler
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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