“Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.” Republic
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel. Crime And Punishment
“Fortune . . . shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.” The Prince
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. Meditations
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