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Niccolo Machiavelli

"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."

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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."

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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
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"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
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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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