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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

Deceive Deceiver Double Pressure
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
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Destry Injure Men Merely Offend Ought Retailable Unable Vengeance
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
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Change Conduct Constant Desire Must Success Time
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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Conduct Difficult Introduce More New Order Success Thing Uncertain
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Difficult Great Willingness
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others.
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Appreciate Intelligence Kind Offer Understand
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
Politics have no relation to morals.
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Moral Politics Relation
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
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Break Lack Legitimate Neck Prince Promise
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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Difficult Lack Love Safer Since Since Fear Together Two Must
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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Advantage Avoid Postpone War
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Fear Inspire Men Offend Shrink
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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Act Arrange Free Law Lay Men Necessity Presupoose Scope State Wickedness
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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Around Estimate First Him Intelligence Look Men Method Ruler

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