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• A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

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  Art, War, Winning

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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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• 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.

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  Different, Done, Way

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

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

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  Doe, Liberality

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

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• When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

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  Hate, Distrust, Conclusion

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• It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.

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  Taken, Humility, Envy

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• An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.

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  Men, Rome, Evil

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• It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.

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  Men, Land, Safety

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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