No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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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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His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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