You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity. . . servile in the face of force, pitiless … - Niccolo Machiavelli

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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

Niccolo Machiavelli

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity. . . servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes. . . and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.

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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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