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For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

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When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

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Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

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I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.

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

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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.

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Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

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Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

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In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

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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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With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.

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For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

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You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.

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Never do your enemy a minor injury.

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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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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

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

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It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

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Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

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