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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIWhosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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 prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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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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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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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 new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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