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• Fortune is a woman. It is necessary, if you wish to master her, to take her by force before she has a chance to resist.
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• Though fraud in other activities be detestable, in the management of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes an enemy by fraud is as much to be praised as he who does so by force.
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• Therefore a wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.
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• Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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• Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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