“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.