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Causes Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
- 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…
- A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for…
- Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the…
- 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…
- Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised....
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