"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
― Niccolo Machiavelli
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- "Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
- "Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot."
- "The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
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