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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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Change Conduct Constant Desire Must Success Time
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
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
Politics have no relation to morals.
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Moral Politics Relation
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned.
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Acquire Admitted Common Condemned More Nature Praise Succeed Wish
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Deceive Deceiver Double Pressure
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Command Know Must Obey Wish
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Break Lack Legitimate Neck Prince Promise
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
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
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Adult Childhood Crazy Distinction Ego Fell Individual Love One Probably Purpose Some Useful
Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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Benefit Drop Hand More Ough Relish
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Interest Overthrow Preserve Status
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Better Both Fear Love One
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
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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Around Estimate First Him Intelligence Look Men Method Ruler

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