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C01. Niccolò Machiavelli

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C01. Niccolò Machiavelli

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"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
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"The common people are always seduced by appearance and success."
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"Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth."

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	1.	"It appears to me more appropriate to follow up the real truth of the matter than the imagination of it."
	2.	"How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation."
	3.	"A man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil."
	4.	"It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity."
	5.	"Men are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous; and as long as you succeed, they are yours entirely, but when [need] approaches, they turn against you."

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