Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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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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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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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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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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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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