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Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

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Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

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In war, discipline can do more than fury.

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How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

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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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But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.

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And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.

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Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

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For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

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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 never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

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It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

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We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.

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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

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I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

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A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

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