There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIOne change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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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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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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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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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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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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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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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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