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And here it should be noted that one can be hated just as much for good deeds as for evil ones.
The need to avoid contempt and hatred

All the allegory means, in making the teacher half beast and half mam, is that a prince must know how to act according to the nature of both, and that he cannot survive otherwise.
How primces should honour their word

A wise prince should rely on what he controls, not on what he cannot control.
Cruelty and compassion

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful.
The constitutional principality

Whoever acts otherwise, either through timidity or misjudgement, is always forced to have the knife ready in his hand and he can never depend on his subjects because they, suffering fresh and continuous violence, can never feel secure with regard to him
The constitutional principality

So it should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them everyday, and in that way he will be able to set men's minds at rest and win them over to him when he confers benefits.
The constitutional principality.

'That he had all the attributes of a king except a kingdom"
Hiero II

They do not seem to have had from fortune, anything other than oppurtunity.

In this way you have enemies in all those whom you have injured in seizing that principality, and you are not able to keep those friends who put you there because of your not being able to satisfy them in the way they expected, and you cannot take strong measures against them, feeling bound to them.

Having made one mistake, he was forced to make others.
Composite principalities