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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…
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Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
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The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
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The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
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So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should…
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One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
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Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
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Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
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To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.
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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such…
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before…
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Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from…
— Tom Brokaw
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even…
— Virginia Woolf
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I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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