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Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either pr

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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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. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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