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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

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Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.

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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

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

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Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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In the armies and among every ten men there is one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his courage, with words and by example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.

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For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion

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Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

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Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.

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The ends justifies the means.

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Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

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The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

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There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

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The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

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

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A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

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How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

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