Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clea

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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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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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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Men
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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God
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Lifes most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. – Henry David Thoreau

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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson

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