A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIIt is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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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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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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned.
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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.
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