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• He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

 

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Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.

 

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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

 

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A leader ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred.

 

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Men sooner forget being robbed of their fathers than of their patrimony.

 

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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

 

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He who conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

 

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Du spammst ja echt dauernd ^^

 

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Misattributed

• War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

 

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This is a quotation of Titus Livius IX:1 iustum enim est bellum quibus necessarium, et pia arma ubi nulla in armis spes est) that Machiavelli uses in Ch.24 of Discourses on Livy.