Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIHe who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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Before all else, be armed.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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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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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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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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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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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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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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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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