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- One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting…
- Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,…
- You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and…
- It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people…
- Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are…
- I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
- The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
- The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than…
- Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in…
- Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence…
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