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• Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Wicked, Made

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• It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

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  Wise, Men, Opinion

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.56, FastPencil Inc

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• Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

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  Men, Decide Upon, Middle

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• One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

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  Arise, Lows, Force

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.225, Penguin

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• There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

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  Judging, Should

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 410-411, Dei Discorsi. I. 7, 1922.

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• Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

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  Art, War, Majesty

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

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• Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

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  Wisdom, Choices, Able

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• The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

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  Change, Order, Enemy

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.19, Knickerbocker Classics

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• He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

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  War, Thieves, Vicious

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• Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

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  Art, War, Mean

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• Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

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  Plato, Half, Etc

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• When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

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  Happiness, Happy, Men

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

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• 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 and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

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  Art, War, Archer

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• The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

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  Art, War, Knowing

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 16, 1517.

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• It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

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  Hypocrite, Simple, Men

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• Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

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  Eye, Men, Hands

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• The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

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  Mistake, Men, Wish

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532.

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• You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.

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  People

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• When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

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  Successful, Opportunity, Men

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• A multitude is strong while it holds together, but so soon as each of those who compose it begins ro think of his own private danger, it becomes weak and contemptible.

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  Strong, Thinking, Together

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• So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

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  Art, War, Impossible

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• 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 the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

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  Art, War, Men

  "Discourses on Livy". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 1, Ch. 37, (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• 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, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

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  Art, War, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

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  Business, Needs, Decision Making

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• Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

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  Knowing, Degrees, Disadvantages

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

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