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A prince is also respected when he is a true friend and a true enemy; that is, when he declares himself on the side of one prince against another without any reservation.

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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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In war, discipline can do more than fury.

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The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

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It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

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When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.

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He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

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it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

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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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For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

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Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

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....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

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One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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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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All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.

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Politics have no relation to morals.

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

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