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Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin

Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Capitalism Quotes

Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a chain of obligation which, because of men's wickedness, is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Fear Quotes

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Wickedness and Cruelty Quotes

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Will and Determination Quotes

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Self-Reliance Quotes

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Creating Positive Change Quotes

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Decisions Quotes

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Decisions Quotes

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Motivation Quotes

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Fear Quotes

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Security Quotes

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

- Niccolo Machiavelli | Risks Quotes

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

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