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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Age: 58 †
Born: 1469
Born: May 3
Died: 1527
Died: June 22
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God creates men, but they choose each other.
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Is it better to be loved or feared?
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Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
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Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.
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When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.
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The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.
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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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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
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There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.
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For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
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If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
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From this arises the question whether 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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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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For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.
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