Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, a…

Niccolo Machiavelli
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Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent. ✨ Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy, p.115, Ozymandias Press
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