Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will … - Niccolo Machiavelli

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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

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.

Art, Causes, Rarer, Wanting, 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.

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