it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.

Before all else, be armed.

One must consider the final result

Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.