. . . . for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility … - Niccolo Machiavelli

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Niccolo Machiavelli

. . . . for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

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How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

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It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

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