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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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He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

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When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

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....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

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Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.

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

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The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

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Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

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In the armies and among every ten men there is one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his courage, with words and by example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.

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It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

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A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

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To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

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Never do your enemy a minor injury.

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Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

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Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

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The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.

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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

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