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• He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Advancement, Waste, Ruins

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• And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Believe

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• Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.

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  Believe, Simple, People

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.67, Penguin

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• Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

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  Revenge, Men, Hustle

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• In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

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  Art, Spring, War

  "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book V, chapter 1, 1526.

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• Never do your enemy a minor injury.

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  Enemy, Injury, Minors

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• Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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  Love, Philosophical, Men

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• If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.

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  Passion, Past, Cities

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• When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

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  Confidence, Gun, People

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• A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

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  Wise, Mean, Government

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.33, Race Point Publishing

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• Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

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  Lions, Foxes, Snares

  NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (2008). “The Prince (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

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  Weather, Roots, Firsts

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.68, Penguin

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• Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.

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  Cities, Names, Liberty

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• A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

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  Wise, Advice, Shrewdness

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• The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

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  Art, War, Men

  "Discourses on Livy". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 1, Ch. 37, (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

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  Government, Law, Foundation

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.47, FastPencil Inc

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• War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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  War, Philosophical, Arms

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• Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.

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  Men, Numbers, Trying

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• One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

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  Memorial Day, War, Order

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• War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

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  Peace, War, Men

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• Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

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  Knowing, Degrees, Disadvantages

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

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  Simple, Men, Good Man

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.99, Race Point Publishing

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• Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished.
  [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

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  War, Prophet, Unarmed

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• Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

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  Men, Crushed, Wells

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.7, FastPencil Inc

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• A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

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  Wise, Philosophical, Reality

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