Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLITardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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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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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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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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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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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 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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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
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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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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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