The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIMen 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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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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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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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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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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 avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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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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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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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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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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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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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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