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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing - time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
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 (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
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 (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)