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• Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

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  Inspirational, Soul, Generous

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

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  War, Men, Order

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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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• I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

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  Liars, Love Is, Men

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• The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.

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  Play, Lions, Foxes

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• If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

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  Honesty, Party, Army

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• Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

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  Ignorance, Men, Difficulty

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.34, Race Point Publishing

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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 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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• To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

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  War, Victory, Troops

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• A blast in the human breast is nothing to boast of.

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  Blast, Breasts, Boast

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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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• 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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• Never do your enemy a minor injury.

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  Enemy, Injury, Minors

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• God creates men, but they choose each other.

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  Men, Community

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• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

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  Father, Son, Loss

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• A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody.

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  People, Hatred, Needs

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.60, Race Point Publishing

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• Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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  Knowing, Evil, Trouble

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• In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.

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  Wise, Men, Law

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• The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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  Love, Children, Crazy

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• No one should therefore fear that he cannot accomplish what others have accomplished, for, men are born, live, and die in quite the same way they always have.

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  Men, Way, Born

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• You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.

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  Humanity, Liberty, Weakness

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• I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves.

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  Art, Giving Up, War

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 2, ch. 29, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

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  Men, Brave, Training

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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