Niccolo Machiavelli
"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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"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."