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Politics have no relation to morals.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Deceive Deceiver Double Pressure
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
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Conceal Enemy Enterprise Execution Likely More No Ripe
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Benefit Better Conferred Gradually Taste Way
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
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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Arm Except Hope Necessary Premise War
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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Always Change Establishment Leave One Open Other
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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All Detail Less Offense Once Severities Suddenness
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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Among Fact Man Necessarily Some Virtuous
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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Broken Give Necessity Past Present Promise Work
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
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Excellent First Good Kind Second Third Useless
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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Advantage Avoid Postpone War
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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Commerce Confidence Cowardice Distrust Either Hatred Offend People Show
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Archive Attribute Either Fortune Virtue

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