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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

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The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

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Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

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One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.

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The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

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The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

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Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.

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And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined.

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

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We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

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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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Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.

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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

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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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The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

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No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.

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A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

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