One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be … - Niccolo Machiavelli

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History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

Deferred, Disorder, Order, Peace, Persist, War

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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.

Eye, General, Gift, Penetration, Reality, Wisdom

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

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What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.

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History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

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The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

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