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• The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Enemy, Done, May

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

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• We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Grief

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• Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Class, Appreciate, Three

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.93, FastPencil Inc

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• To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

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  Believe, Moving, Army

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• A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.

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  Grief, Men, Political

  "The Prince".

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• For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Gun, Evil, Gun Control

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.46, Knickerbocker Classics

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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.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Law, Two, Mind

  "The Prince". EasyRead Large Bold Edition,

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• And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Preparation

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

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• He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

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  May, Able, Firsts

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.24, FastPencil Inc

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• Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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  Love, Two, Together

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

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• We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

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  Philosophical, Umpires, Literature

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.28, Knickerbocker Classics

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• Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

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  Law, Needs, Politics

  "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. Allan Gilbert, book 1, chapter 18, p. 241, 1965.

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• When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

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  Population, Three, World

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 5, as translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, 1517.

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• Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

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  Fickle, Literature, May

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• Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.

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  Art, War, Believe

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, as translated by Luigi Ricci (1903), 1513.

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• I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you

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  Military, Men, Effort

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• Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

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  Art, War, Causes

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, 1513.

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• Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.

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  Wise, Italian, Cities

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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. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

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  Religious, Opposites, Faithful

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

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• The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.

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  Two, Together, Would Be

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

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• One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

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  Love Is, Men, Avid

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• Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Needs

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• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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  Crazy, Military, War

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• For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained.
  [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]

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  Law, Good Man, May

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• For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Errors, Uprising

  "History Of Florence And The Affairs Of Italy".

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