Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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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 rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good mans love. – Euripides

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About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway

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