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Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would b

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. – Blaise Pascal

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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. – Josh Billings

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Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith. – Ronald Reagan

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