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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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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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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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