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

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
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. – Niccolò Machiavelli
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease… and throw himself into roils and labors. – Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, 1787