Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majori

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men
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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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good
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War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Hope
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I envy the happiness of others… I envy the sense of belonging… I seem always to be remaking myself. – Richard Eyre

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. – Arnold Bennett

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Choose your lifes mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others. – Henry Drummond

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. – Peter Drucker

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As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift. – B.K.S. Iyengar

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Meditation

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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Faith

People are broad-minded. Theyll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman; but if a man doesnt drive, theres something wrong with him. – Art Buchwald