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“each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.”
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“Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.”
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“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”
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“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”
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“Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot”
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“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.”
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“Politics have no relation to morals.”
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“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope”
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“For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are”
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“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared”
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“Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.”
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