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• When neither their poverty nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)...
• 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...
• Del Mar: Where poverty is neither a philosophy nor a way of life.
• Neither great poverty, nor great riches, will hear reason. -- Fielding
• A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• 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....
• Give me neither poverty nor riches. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxx, 8
• 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....