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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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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 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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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Does Finally Fool Does Man Once Wise
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Dispatch Force Ofen Opportunity Rob Tardiness
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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Conduct Difficult Introduce More New Order Success Thing Uncertain
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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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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Appreciate Intelligence Kind Offer Understand
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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Against Do Faith Interest Keep Out Ruler Wise
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Excellent First Good Kind Second Third Useless
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Change Conduct Constant Desire Must Success Time
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Difficult Great Willingness
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
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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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Must Nature People Prince Understand
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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