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• Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Winning

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• One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Memorial Day, War, Order

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• Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

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  Giving, Political, Benefits

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• I hope and hoping feeds my pain
  I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
  I laugh but the laughter does not pass within
  I burn but the burning makes no mark outside.

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  Laughter, Pain, Reading

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• And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.

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  Believe, Mean, Order

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

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  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

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  Life, Men, Wish

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• Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

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  Men, Crushed, Wells

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.7, FastPencil Inc

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• One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

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  Danger, Pure

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• ....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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  Character, Greatness, Politics

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

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  God, Philosophical, Art Of War

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.106, FastPencil Inc

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• He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

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  Past, Looks, Should

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• Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

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  Passion, Men, Yield

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• One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

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  Philosophical, Son, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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  Powerful, Grief, Ambition

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• Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

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  Men, Path, Action

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.18, Race Point Publishing

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• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

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  Strength, Wise, Hope

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

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• For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

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  Men, Honor, Titles

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 372-75, Dei Discorsi, III. 38, 1922.

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• He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that the family of their former lord is extinguished; the other, that neither their laws nor their taxes are altered, so that in a very short time they will become entirely one body with the old principality.

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  Law, Two, Mind

  "The Prince". EasyRead Large Bold Edition,

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• It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

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  Art, War, Favors

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• Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

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  Eye, Men, Hands

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• For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.

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  Taken, Mean, Credit

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

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• All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

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  Men, Republic, States

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.4, Booklassic

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• It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

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  Sex, Likes, Fortune

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• 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 his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

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  Art, War, Said

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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