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• Men often deceive themselves in believing that humility can overcome insolence.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Men must either be caressed or annihilated. They will revenge themselves for small injuries, but they can't do so for great ones.
  The harm the leader does must be such that he need not fear revenge. -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
  -- Machiavelli...
• When neither their poverty nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)...
• When neither their poverty nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)...
• Men, iron, money and bread are the strength of the war, but of these four, the first two are the most necessary
  because men and iron find money and bread, but bread and money find not men and iron....
• Men must either be caressed or annihilated and the injury must be such that the victim cannot pay you back for it.
  Whoever acts otherwise is obliged to stand forever with a knife in his hand....