Italian - Writer | May 3, 1469 - June 21, 1527
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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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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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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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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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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