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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you m

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 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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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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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. – Walter Lippmann

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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win. – Ho Chi Minh

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When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women. – Marilyn Monroe

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