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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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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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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
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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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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
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