Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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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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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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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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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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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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This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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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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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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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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