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.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIOf mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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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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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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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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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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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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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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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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