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• 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....
• Men are apt to deceive themselves in big things, but they rarely do so in particulars.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Men often deceive themselves in believing that humility can overcome insolence.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• We are all born with the same mark below, And the bigger it is, the more we know
  If you could see it, soon would nature show All the great wonders she can do for us....
• Though fraud in other activities be detestable, in the management of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes an enemy by fraud is as much to be praised as he who does so by force.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system.
  For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones....
• It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system.
  For the initiator has the emnity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones....
• There is no revenge so sweet as forgiveness.
• The thousand injuries of fortune I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.