"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair."
"Before all else, be armed."
"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. "
"Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. "
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
"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."
"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."
"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
"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."
"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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