Machiavelli Quotes
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European History [1]
APEH Niccola Machiavelli?s The Prince (1513) Quotes ??but war and its organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. The chief cause of the loss of states, is the contempt of this art.? ??one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two hast to be wanting.? ??one should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred ma go well together?? ?when one is obliged to take the life of any one, let him do so when there is proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must refrain [abstain] from taking the property of others??