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as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure

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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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The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

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Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

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Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.

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Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

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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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And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

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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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And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined.

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Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

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

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I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

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I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

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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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He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

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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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For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

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