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He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

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So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

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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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One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

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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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There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

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It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

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If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

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Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

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War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

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

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Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.

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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.

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A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

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You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.

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The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

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