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- I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is…
- The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a…
- I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it;…
- If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to…
- And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you…
- They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.
- Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts…
- Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how…
- One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.
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