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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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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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Before all else, be armed.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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