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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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Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.

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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

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It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.

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He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

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

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Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

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A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

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He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

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Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

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There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.

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

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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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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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To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.

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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

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