When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

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"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair."

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"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."

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"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."

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