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- One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting…
- Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.
- 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…
- 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…
- I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it;…
- 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…
- The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is…
- And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for…
- 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…
- You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of…
- Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made…
- And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of…
- That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it…
- Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
- Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
- Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the…
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