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

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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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He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

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It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.

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The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

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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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When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

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There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

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Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.

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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

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A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

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....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

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It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.

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States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

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Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

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