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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
By Nicolo Machiavelli
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately
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It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent
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Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm
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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied
By Nicolo Machiavelli