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- It is better to be feared than loved.- He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
- If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
- Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
- Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
- There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
- A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.
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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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