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....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

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A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

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For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.

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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.

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Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

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One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.

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When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

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It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

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Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

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If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

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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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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

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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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Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

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There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.

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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

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Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

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