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The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)

A work by Niccolò Machiavelli, first published in 1532

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    A ruler should inflict injuries all at once and grant benefits little by little, The chief foundations of every state are good laws and good arms, and good laws depend on being well armed, Advice should follow how people actually live, since acting wholly on professed virtue among so much evil leads to ruin …

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    Niccolò Machiavelli

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First published
15322
Edition korrents quotes
tr. W. K. Marriott, 19083
Claims on korrents
61

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. A ruler should inflict injuries all at once and grant benefits little by little (opens korrents.com)1

  2. The chief foundations of every state are good laws and good arms, and good laws depend on being well armed (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Advice should follow how people actually live, since acting wholly on professed virtue among so much evil leads to ruin (opens korrents.com)1

  4. A ruler should wish to be both loved and feared, but if one must be given up it is much safer to be feared (opens korrents.com)1

  5. A wise ruler need not keep his word when it would harm him and its reasons are gone, because people are not wholly good (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Since fortune changes and people keep to their ways, people succeed while the two agree and fail when they diverge (opens korrents.com)1

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  1. The Prince (tr. W. K. Marriott, 1908) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. The Prince, Q131719 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. The Prince (tr. W. K. Marriott, 1908) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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