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When they remain in garrison,...

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

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Present wars impoverish the l...

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

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Still, a prince should make h...

Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women.

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How laudable it is for a prin...

How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.

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as the physicians say it happ...

as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure

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A prince ought to have two fe...

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

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As the observance of divine i...

As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion.

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A son could bear with great c...

A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

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Some princes, so as to hold s...

Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.

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....those who become princes ...

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

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In order not to annul our fre...

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

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Men ought either to be well t...

Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.

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Whoever desires to found a st...

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

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Without doubt, ferocious and ...

Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.

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And truly it is a very natura...

And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.

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For as laws are necessary tha...

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

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If someone puts up the argume...

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage.

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To know in war how to recogni...

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

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(A ruler) cannot and should n...

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

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For he who innovates will hav...

For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

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