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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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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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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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
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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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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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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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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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