If a ruler asks only what will profit his kingdom, high and low will seize profit from each other and the kingdom will be endangered

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• The decline of empires can lead to the loss of their core territories. NSNoah Smith2 Oct 2026
• The most likely bad outcome is not a takeover but a gradual loss of control and understanding, as fewer and fewer people understand what we have layered everywhere. AKAndrej Karpathy17 Oct 2025
• By resisting their kings, the English alone have limited royal power and built a government that can do good but is restrained from evil VOVoltairec. 1733
• A ruler should wish to be both loved and feared, but if one must be given up it is much safer to be feared NMNiccolò Machiavellic. 1513–1514
• A king who fails to win the realm fails because he does not act, not because he is unable to MEMenciusc. 400–301 BCE

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