Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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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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