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• How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Different, Done, Way

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• In war, discipline can do more than fury.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Discipline

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• Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

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  War, Enemy, Overcoming

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• For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

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  World, Appearance, Results

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• 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 man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

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  Art, War, Men

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• Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Benefits

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• There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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  Intelligent, Appreciate, Intelligence

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• Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

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  Success, Ordinary, Results

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Discourses”, p.469, Penguin UK

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• When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.

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  Home, Clothes, Space

  "The Prince". Political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532.

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• The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Want, Peasants, Left Alone

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• Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

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  Death, Father, Loss

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.69, FastPencil Inc

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• Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

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  Doe, Liberality

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2002). “The Prince”, Spark Notes

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• 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 inheritance.

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  Power, Men, Inheritance

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• A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

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  Men, Acting, Way

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.274, Penguin

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• A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

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  Philosophical, Art Of War, Keeping Promises

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.95, Penguin

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• Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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  Simple, Men, Hype

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• Cruelties should be committed all at once.

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  Should, Cruelty, Committed

  Gerald Lee Ratliff, Niccolo Machiavelli (1986). “Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince”, p.48, Barron's Educational Series

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• Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

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  Fear, Punishment, Dread

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• Change has no constituency.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

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• Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

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  War, Gun, Evil

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.66, Xist Publishing

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• 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 ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

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  Art, War, Fighting

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• The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

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  Art, War, Enemy

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• Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.

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  Peace, War, Quality

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

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• One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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  Change, Philosophical, Moving Forward

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• Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

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  Ambition, Men, Politics

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