Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIOne change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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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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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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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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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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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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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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