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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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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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Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

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Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

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For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion

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Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

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He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

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A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

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They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.

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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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If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

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The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

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...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

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I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

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