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{{Cquote|''A man who aspires to be good all the time must of necessity come to grief among so many who are so bad.''}}

{{Cquote|''A man who aspires to be good all the time must of necessity come to grief among so many who are so bad.''}}

{{Cquote|''There never was a new prince who has disarmed his subjects; rather when he has found them disarmed he has always armed them, because, by arming them, those arms become yours, those men who were distrusted become faithful, and those who were faithful are kept so, and your subjects become your adherents. And whereas all subjects cannot be armed, yet when those whom you do arm are benefited, the others can be handled more freely, and this difference in their treatment, which they quite understand, makes the former your dependents, and the latter, considering it to be necessary that those who have the most danger and service should have the most reward, excuse you. But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.''<ref>Chapter 20, section 2.</ref>}}

{{Cquote|''There never was a new prince who has disarmed his subjects; rather when he has found them disarmed he has always armed them, because, by arming them, those arms become yours, those men who were distrusted become faithful, and those who were faithful are kept so, and your subjects become your adherents. And whereas all subjects cannot be armed, yet when those whom you do arm are benefited, the others can be handled more freely, and this difference in their treatment, which they quite understand, makes the former your dependents, and the latter, considering it to be necessary that those who have the most danger and service should have the most reward, excuse you. But when you disarm them, you at once offend them by showing that you distrust them, either for cowardice or for want of loyalty, and either of these opinions breeds hatred against you.''<ref>Chapter 20, section 2.</ref>}}

''[[Cyrus]] found the [[Persia]]ns discontented with the empire of the [[Medes]], and the Medes weak and [[gay|effeminate]] through long peace.''<ref>Chapter 6</ref>}}

{{Cquote|''[[Cyrus]] found the [[Persia]]ns discontented with the empire of the [[Medes]], and the Medes weak and [[gay|effeminate]] through long peace.''<ref>Chapter 6</ref>}}

{{Cquote|''Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be, and are ruined.''}}

{{Cquote|''Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be, and are ruined.''}}