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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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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

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For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

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A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.

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For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

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We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.

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

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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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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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...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

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Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.

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A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side of one prince against another without any reservation.

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Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness.

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It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.

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The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

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....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

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