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Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.
- Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
- Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
- Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
- Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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