"Then also pretexts for seizing property are never……" — Niccolo Machiavelli

"Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed."

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