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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
Integrity

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
Leadership

"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
Policy

"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."
Man

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
People

"War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans."
Peace

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
Justice

"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
Nature

"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
Danger

"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
Virtue
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