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• Men are apt to deceive themselves in big things, but they rarely do so in particulars.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. -- Ovid
• It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• Since the generality of persons act from impulse much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
  -- Hare...
• No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more courageous than health.
  -- Colto...
• All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers .
  .. Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born....
• It is far safer to be feared than loved. -- Machiavelli