Niccolo Machiavelli
"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
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"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot."
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
"Politics have no relation to morals."