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- Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
- One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as…
- 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…
- It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of…
- 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;…
- Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain…
- 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…
- Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised....
- Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.
- It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than…
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