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- We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who…
- There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed…
- A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow…
- Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually;…
- When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor...
- The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they…
- A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten…
- 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…
- Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
- It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state…
- 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…
- No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize…
- Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is…
- Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.
- In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
- If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and…
- 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,…
- God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than by industry, by…
- As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to…
- And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the…
- So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.
- I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
- The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a…
- The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that…
- The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
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