There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIPolitics have no relation to morals.
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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Before all else, be armed.
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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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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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