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...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.
– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.
– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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