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“I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself”
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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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“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury”
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“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us”
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“States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them”
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“When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred...”
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“Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.”
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“Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.”
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“There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.”
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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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“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”
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