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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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Adapt Clash Demand Likewise One Policy Time
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Fickle Gain General Greedy Hypocritical Man Mankind
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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Difficult Lack Love Safer Since Since Fear Together Two Must
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
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Evil Gain Good Hatred Much
Politics have no relation to morals.
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Moral Politics Relation
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Achievement Anything Danger Great never Without
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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Breath Constant Execute Executem Furnish Leisure Military Peace Plan Prince War Study
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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Advantage Avoid Postpone War
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
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Contempt Country Decay Religion See Sign Sure
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
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 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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Adult Childhood Crazy Distinction Ego Fell Individual Love One Probably Purpose Some Useful
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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All Aspire Breast Element Four Frame Mind Nature Regiment Teach

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