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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
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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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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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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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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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.
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
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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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