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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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Politics have no relation to morals.
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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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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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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
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