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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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Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

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

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They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

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There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

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A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

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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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The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women.

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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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All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

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The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

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Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.

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God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by wicked actions rather than by good. Hence it is that men feed upon each other, and those who cannot defend themselves must be worried.

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

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And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.

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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

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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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