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 MACHIAVELLIMen are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
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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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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
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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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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Never was anything great achieved without danger.
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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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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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