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The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.

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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

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I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words toward anyone, for neither diminishes the strength of the enemy.

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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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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

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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 more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

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Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.

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The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

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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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Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

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A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.

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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting a new business. Rather, the Prince should be ready to reward men who want to do these things and those who endeavour in any way to increase the prosperity of their city or their state.

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If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

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