Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Before all else, be armed.
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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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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.
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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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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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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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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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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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