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• A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Men are apt to deceive themselves in big things, but they rarely do so in particulars.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
  We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us....
• Reach high! The best is always kept Upon life's topmost shelves, But not beyond our reach if we Will reach beyond ourselves.
  -- Helen Laurie Marshall...
• But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand.
  Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell....
• Never satisfied...
• All things work out in the end; the problem is that we never reach a definite end
  we are always making new beginnings....
• Deceit in the conduct of war outweighs valor and is worthy of merit. -- Niccolo Machiavelli