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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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Always Deceive Find One Themselvesm Deceive
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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Ambition Another Attack Men Other Secure Seek Themselves
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Does Finally Fool Does Man Once Wise
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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Acquire Admitted Common Condemned More Nature Praise Succeed Wish
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Interest Overthrow Preserve Status
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Benefit Better Conferred Gradually Taste Way
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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Arm Except Hope Necessary Premise War
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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Another Find Men Moment Simple Suffer Tricked Yield
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Cleaner Escape Hourglass More Sand Through
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Better Both Fear Love One
This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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Excellent First Good Kind Second Third Useless
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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Done Fear Injury Man Severe Use Vengence
So that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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Does Either Fear Indulge Injury Ought Vengeance
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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Arm Come Destroy Prophet Victorious
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
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Destroy Generous heavy Injury Men One Revenge Sight
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Command Know Must Obey Wish

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