Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIThe 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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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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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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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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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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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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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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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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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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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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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