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His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Must Nature People Prince Understand
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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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Interest Overthrow Preserve Status
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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Deception Immediate Incline Lack Men Obey Simple Victim
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
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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Always Change Establishment Leave One Open Other
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Fear Inspire Men Offend Shrink
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others.
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Appreciate Intelligence Kind Offer Understand
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Evil Gain Good Hatred Much
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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Against Do Faith Interest Keep Out Ruler Wise
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Excellent First Good Kind Second Third Useless
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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Does Finally Fool Does Man Once Wise
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Cleaner Escape Hourglass More Sand Through
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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Destroy Generous heavy Injury Men One Revenge Sight

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