I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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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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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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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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