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The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

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Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

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Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.

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Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

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Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

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Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

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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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From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.

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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

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From this arises the question whether 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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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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He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

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