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Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which…

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“Men are ‘ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, and greedy for gain. While you work for their benefit, they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons, as I said above, when…

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Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

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Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends…

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It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because…

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“Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.”

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He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.

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Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas…

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Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

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There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that…

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That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided…

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“Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed,…

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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for…

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Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

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“He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and…

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One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

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