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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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• 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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• 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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• Change has no constituency.

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

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  Men, Wicked, Made

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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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• Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

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  Fear, Punishment, Dread

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

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  Men, Weather, Common

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• So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

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  War, Evil, Able

  NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1947). “THE PRINCE”

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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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• One must consider the final result

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  Finals, Results, Ends Justify The Means

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.14, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

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  Way, Destroying

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

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  Art, War, Men

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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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• Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

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  War, Men, Order

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• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

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  Philosophical, Opportunity, Literature

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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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