Niccolo Machiavelli
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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you. ✨ The Prince. Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, www.cnn.com. 1532.

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