Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIOne change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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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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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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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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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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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned.
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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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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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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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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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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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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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