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- 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,…
- It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
- When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion…
- So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.
- 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…
- Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or…
- When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both…
- Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
- Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they…
- We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
- Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the…
- 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,…
- Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
- People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is…
- But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let…
- For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so…
- In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.
- All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.
- When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will…
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