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“Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who
are not good. Hence a Prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and
use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires”.
Nicolo Machiavelli 1469-1527.

“Lord, protect me from my friends, I can take care of my enemies”.
Voltaire 1694-1778.

“Princes, and especially new ones, have found more faith and more usefulness in those men,
whom in the beginning of their power they regarded with suspicion, than in those they at first
confided in”.
Nicolo Machiavelli 1469-1527.

“Pick up a bee from kindness, and learn the limitations of kindness”.
Sufi proverb.

“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and
Revenge a pleasure”.
Tacitus c. A D 55-120.

“Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one.
Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning”.
Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658.

“An often told tale of Henry Kissinger involved a report that Winston Lord had worked on for days.
After giving it to Kissinger, he got it back with the notation ‘Is this the best you can do?’. Lord
rewrote and polished, and finally resubmitted it; back it came, with the same curt question. After
redrafting it one more time – and once again getting the same
Question from Kissinger – Lord snapped, ‘Damn it, yes, it’s the best I can do’ to which
Kissinger replied ‘Fine, then I guess I will read it this time’ “.