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Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and t

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. – 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 should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot. – 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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Nature never goes out of style. – Anonymous

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I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. – Julius Caesar

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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. – Paul Cezanne

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