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The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.
Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.
The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.
For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying
For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.
There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.
Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.
Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.