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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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Act Arrange Free Law Lay Men Necessity Presupoose Scope State Wickedness

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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Difficult Great Willingness
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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Destroy Generous heavy Injury Men One Revenge Sight
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Change Conduct Constant Desire Must Success Time
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Evil Gain Good Hatred Much
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Cleaner Escape Hourglass More Sand Through
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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Ambition Another Attack Men Other Secure Seek Themselves
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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Conduct Difficult Introduce More New Order Success Thing Uncertain
Before all else, be armed.
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All Arm Before Isle
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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Adapt Clash Demand Likewise One Policy Time
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Dangerous Element Far Government More Other Prince Society
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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Arm Except Hope Necessary Premise War
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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Among Fact Man Necessarily Some Virtuous
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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All Aspire Breast Element Four Frame Mind Nature Regiment Teach
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Does Finally Fool Does Man Once Wise
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Interest Overthrow Preserve Status
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Fear Inspire Men Offend Shrink

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