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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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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Peace
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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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Life
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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God
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief dont matter, that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return. – A. N. Wilson

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Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God. – Edwin Louis Cole

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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. – Thomas Browne

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The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. Its in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. – Jeff Miller

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Im afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. – Andy Warhol

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