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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, crazy for love.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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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.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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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 condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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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.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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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.
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To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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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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We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Adam Weishaupt
Profession
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BirthDate
06 February, 1748
DeathDate
18 November, 1830
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Germany
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