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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Dispatch Force Ofen Opportunity Rob Tardiness
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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Fear Love More Much Secure
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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Arm Come Destroy Prophet Victorious
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Excellent First Good Kind Second Third Useless
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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Achievement Anything Danger Great never Without
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Better Both Fear Love One
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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Adapt Clash Demand Likewise One Policy Time
Before all else, be armed.
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All Arm Before Isle
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Contempt Country Decay Religion See Sign Sure
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
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Bear Despair Drive Father Inheritance Loss Qquanmity Son
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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All Aspire Breast Element Four Frame Mind Nature Regiment Teach
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Difficult Great Willingness
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Fickle Gain General Greedy Hypocritical Man Mankind
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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Appreciate Intelligence Kind Offer Understand
But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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Ability Aquire Condemnation Cost Deserve Mistake More
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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Another Find Men Moment Simple Suffer Tricked Yield
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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Ambition Another Attack Men Other Secure Seek Themselves
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Archive Attribute Either Fortune Virtue
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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Must Nature People Prince Understand
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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All Determine Inflict Injury Must Need New Once Ruler
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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Always Change Establishment Leave One Open Other
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Cleaner Escape Hourglass More Sand Through
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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Commit Conquer Demolish Error Except Great Ruin Town
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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Away Belong Everything Glory God Share Take Willing
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Fear Inspire Men Offend Shrink
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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Act Arrange Free Law Lay Men Necessity Presupoose Scope State Wickedness
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Dangerous Element Far Government More Other Prince Society

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