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A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
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Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.
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There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.
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For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying
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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
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Men are driven by two two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
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The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Variant translation: War is not to be avoided, but is only to be put off to the advantage of others
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
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It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.
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Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage,
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A man should not be injured and then assigned to important administration and control.
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He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.
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When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
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He [the prince] holds to what is right when he can but knows how to do wrong when he must.
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Men are so imprudent that they take up a diet which, though it tastes sweet, is poisonous.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
May 3, 1469
Died:
June 21, 1527
(aged 58)
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