Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIBefore all else, be armed.
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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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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 more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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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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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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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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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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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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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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