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Before all else, be armed.

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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

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

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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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....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

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Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

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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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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

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For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

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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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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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He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

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And if, to be sure, sometimes you need to conceal a fact with words, do it in such a way that it does not become known, or, if it does become known, that you have a ready and quick defense.

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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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Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

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