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“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”

Niccolo Machiavelli · Men

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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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.

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