People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.
Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
The ends justifies the means.
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
Politics have no relation to morals.
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.
Before all else, be armed.
Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.
It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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