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- 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;…
- 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…
- 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…
- Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed…
- How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience…
- 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…
- From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends,…
- Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.
- Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or…
- 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…
- Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.…
- 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…
- Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them…
- Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how…
- Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both…
- Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
- as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect,…
- For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is…
- the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if…
- All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.
- Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that…
- 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…
- Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed…
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