Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.

Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

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

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.