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Nicolo Machiavelli

Nicolo Machiavelli
War should be the only study of a prince.
Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm.
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and