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a prince should entrust his friends with so much authority only as leaves a certain interval between his position and theirs
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The prince, therefore, who would guard himself against plots, ought more to fear those men to whom he has been too indulgent, than those to whom he has done great wrongs.
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Moreover men commonly deceive themselves in respect of the love which they imagine others bear them, nor can ever be sure of it until they have put it to the proof.
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this vice of ingratitude has its source either in avarice or in suspicion