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So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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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 double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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Conceal Enemy Enterprise Execution Likely More No Ripe
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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A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
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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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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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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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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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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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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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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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