He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIOf mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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 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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Before all else, be armed.
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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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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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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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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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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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