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You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
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 (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
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 (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his spirit, with his words, and with his example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
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 (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
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 (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)
A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him (Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes)