Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc.…

Niccolo Machiavelli
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Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?
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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 t … ▶
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.
For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying ✨ Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). Machiavelli, More & Luther, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. ✨ Niccolo Machiavelli (2003). Discourses on Livy, p.302, OUP Oxford
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms. ✨ Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). The Prince, p.47, FastPencil Inc

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