The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThe first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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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 shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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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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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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