For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that … - Niccolo Machiavelli

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We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

Good, Good Man, Law, Maintained, Needs, Preserved

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For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

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How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

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