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• It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• 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...
• The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. -- St. Augustine
• Deceit in the conduct of war outweighs valor and is worthy of merit. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• Non-cooperation with evil is a much a duty as is cooperation with good.
• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)...
• A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• Men are apt to deceive themselves in big things, but they rarely do so in particulars.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...