Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
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Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
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Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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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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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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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
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Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
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