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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

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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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When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

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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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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

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Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power.

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War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

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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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For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]

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One must consider the final result

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Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

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Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

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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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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

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The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

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For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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Change has no constituency.

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