How Perilous It Is To Free A

So Far As He Is Able, A Prince Should Stick To The Path Of Good But, If The Necessity Arises, He Should Know How To Follow Evil.

For Whoever Conquers A Free Town, And Does Not Demolish It, Commits A Great Error, And May Expect To Be Ruin 'd Himself.

The Leader Should Know How To Enter Into Evil When Necessity Commands.

For, In Truth, There Is No Sure Way Of Holding Other Than By Destroying

Benefits Should Be Conferred Gradually; And In That Way They Will Taste Better.