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

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There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

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For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

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The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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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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Cruelties should be committed all at once.

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Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

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There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

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There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

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It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

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There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.

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Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

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Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

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

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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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