Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.

it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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