Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLINo enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Before all else, be armed.
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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.
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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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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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