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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly."
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
Explore more quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."
"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
"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."
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
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