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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

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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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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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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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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

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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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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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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Writer

Born: May 3rd, 1469

Died: June 21st, 1527

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