Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir mens blood.
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.Niccolo Machiavelli
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Prudence consists in the power to recognize the nature of disadvantages and to take the less disagreeable as good.
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From this arises the question Whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both but 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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