Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian political thinker, historian, writer, advocate of a strong state power.
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/12/2018 14:45:32] 
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Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to ruin them; the second, for the conqueror to go and reside there in person; and the third is to allow them to continue to live under their own laws, subject to a regular tribute, and to create in them a government of a few, who will keep the country friendly to the conqueror (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance of the status quo, a potential threat to peoples vested interests in their jobs, and an upset to established ways of doing things. For these reasons, needed reorganization is often deferred. With a resulting loss in effectiveness and increase in costs. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.... (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country? (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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It ought to be remembered that 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. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in n (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been treated or recognized at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to a prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that e (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of necessity to protect oneself, and are not continued but are instead converted into the greatest possible benefits for the subjects. Badly used are those cruelties which. although being few at the outset, grow with the passing time instead of disappearing. Those who follow the first method can remedy their condition with God and with men; the others cannot possibly survive. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the reputation of being a miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you. (Niccolo Machiavelli) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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