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There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Judging, Should
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 410-411, Dei Discorsi. I. 7, 1922.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

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War, Gun, Evil
Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.66, Xist Publishing

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Men, Decide Upon, Middle

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Wisdom, Choices, Able

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

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Wise, Men, Opinion
Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.56, FastPencil Inc

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

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War, Thieves, Vicious

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

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Art, War, Enemy

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

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Art, War, Majesty
Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.73, FastPencil Inc

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Art, War, Mean

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

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Art, War, Knowing
"Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 16, 1517.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

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Happiness, Happy, Men
Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

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Art, War, Archer

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

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Knowing, Degrees, Disadvantages
Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

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Literature, Prophet, Unarmed
"The Prince".

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

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Business, Needs, Decision Making

It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

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Hypocrite, Simple, Men

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Humanity, Liberty, Weakness

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

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Mistake, Men, Wish
"The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

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Ambition, Men, Politics

To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

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War, Victory, Troops

I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Liars, Love Is, Men

When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

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Successful, Opportunity, Men

Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.

Niccolo Machiavelli
Art, War, Men
Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

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Plato, Half, Etc

You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.

Niccolo Machiavelli
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