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A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody.

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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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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

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Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.

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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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Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.

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

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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

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Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

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A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

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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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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

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A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

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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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One must consider the final result

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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

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Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

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He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

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He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.

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