If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIIt is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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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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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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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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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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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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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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