“Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.”
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
