The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIBenefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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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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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
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