Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIOne who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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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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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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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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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Politics have no relation to morals.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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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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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
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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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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense.
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