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- One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting…
- Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
- I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation…
- 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,…
- Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for…
- And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for…
- The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as…
- 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…
- And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as…
- The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet…
- They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.
- I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor…
- Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are…
- I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the…
- A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art…
- A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does…
- Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in…
- Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence…
- In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have…
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