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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 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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Appearance
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I certainly wasnt happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you cant earn, and cant keep, and often dont even recognize at the time I mean joy. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. – Author Unknown

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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. – Arthur Rimbaud

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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. – Herman Hesse

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. – Khalil Gibran

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It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. – Max Beerbohm

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. – Soren Kierkegaard

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