The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos,
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
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.
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
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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
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