Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
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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. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Peace
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Love
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men
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The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons. – Bhagavad Gita

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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All things are becoming to good people. – Proverb

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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. – Samuel Butler, Erewhon

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In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell

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And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim. – Amos Oz

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Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. – Norman Vincent Peale

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