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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Age: 58 †
Born: 1469
Born: May 3
Died: 1527
Died: June 22
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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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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
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Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves
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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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To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.
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Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.
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A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.
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Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.
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There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
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For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
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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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Benefits should be conferred gradually and in that way they will taste better.
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It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.
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People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.
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It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
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