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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

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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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People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

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The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

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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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Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

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By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.

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

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

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He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

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The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

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Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

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So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

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(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

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When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

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Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

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And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.

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One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

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In war, discipline can do more than fury.

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