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1469–1527. Florentine diplomat, historian and political philosopher. 4 quotes.
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Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot
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
It is much safer to be feared than loved
The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him