The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIHence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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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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Politics have no relation to morals.
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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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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 first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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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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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.
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