A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. – Niccolò Machiavelli
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. – Niccolò Machiavelli

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. – Niccolò Machiavelli
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. – Niccolò Machiavelli
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. – Niccolò Machiavelli
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely…. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius… – Okakura KakuzÅ