- Niccolo Macchiavelli
(05/03/1469 – 06/21/1527)
Italian writer (The Prince)
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"It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as by those they receive."
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| "Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them." |  |
"For though he had very little Latin beyond 'Cave canem,' he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding)."
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"Whether women are better than men I cannot say—but I can say they are certainly no worse."
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"He never contributed a damn thing to music."
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"The way I heard it, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, Joan Crawford was on the set, in her chair, knitting. Someone rushed over to the set and yelled, 'The Japanese have destroyed Pearl Harbor!" Joan looked up and said, 'Oh, dear. Who was she?'"
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"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
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| "It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting." |  |
"In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else."
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| "My business is hurting people." |  |
"The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent."
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| "Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!" |  |
"The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful."
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