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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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

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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

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When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

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Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

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He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that the family of their former lord is extinguished; the other, that neither their laws nor their taxes are altered, so that in a very short time they will become entirely one body with the old principality.

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A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.

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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

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Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

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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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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

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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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Never do an enemy a small injury.

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One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

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Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

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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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The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.

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Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?

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A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

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Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

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