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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.


Niccolo Machiavelli

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BEN CHAPPELL Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
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ANDRE BOTHA Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much e...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
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DONAVAN NELSON BUTLER, MASTER SERGEANT US ARMY But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
ROBERT JORDAN Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
ALBERT EINSTEIN If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being trea...
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FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others
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JASON WALKER Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Gui...
DANIEL ABRAHAM women should be treated just like men.
JOE ARPAIO They can either work for McDonald's or be screeners.
BOB MONETTI To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
PIERRE CORNEILLE Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditio...
RALPH MERKLE Don't take people for what they are! Most people do not deserve this. Take them rather for what they...
MARGARETHE STRNAD Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matte...
BILL O'REILLY Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness superven...
HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want...
WALTER PAYTON Those who are weak in attitude ignore opportunities to take action and deflect accountability, presu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy u...
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MADS MIKKELSEN But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should...
JOHN BUCHAN The men have been playing for decades and the women for a much shorter time. And a lot of that time ...
DICK BADDOUR When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either su...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN When a patient asks me whether they should try alternative or herbal medication, I counsel that it g...
BRIAN SMART The new models should provide a slight increase in sales for 18 to 24 months, but after that they sh...
JEFF SCHUSTER Men should be what they seem;Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
CATHY ANDREEN All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without dou...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without dou...
MARCUS T. CICERO Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a ...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a ...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or suc...
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BONO It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It...
JOSS WHEDON They destroyed something they voted to pay for.
MAJOR JIM BRANCH The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to pres...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Un...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
PEARL S. BUCK Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than u...
TED TURNER Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.
CONSTANCE FRIDAY Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who shoul...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
HAROLD COFFIN Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
SIR EDWARD COKE Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
MICHAEL SCOTT Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.
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KHLOE KARDASHIAN To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give
TRISTAN BERNARD The enemy should prepare the coffins for their soldiers and settlers because the revenge will be swi...
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SUNDAY ADELAJA I think the control board should either send it back to the legislature for balancing, or they shoul...
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VIJAY SETHUPATHI The doctors with ailments not willing to take the treatment should be treated first. The doctors wit...
APURVA GAGLANI Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunn...
DONALD TRUMP Most students appeal their grades because they feel like they have been unfairly treated. For exampl...
LARRY JOHANNESSEN Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by ...
JOHN STUART MILL For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be ups...
HAROLD H. GREENE The injuries worry me because they all seem to be long term.
BOBBY CHARLTON Trivialities are just that. And most importantly, they should be treated as such.
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SUSAN FORWARD For without transformation Men become wolves on every slight occasion.
JOHN BYROM A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
AMIRI BARAKA A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge...
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ARIANA GRANDE Men should be what they seem.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It has never been a mistake to commit a mistake, but a mistake to repeat a mistake
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order o...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which apprec...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Considering thus how much honor is awarded to antiquity, and how many times—letting pass infinite ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Never was anything great achieved without danger.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI CHAPTER VI
Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every o...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuri...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them;...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of succes...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are no...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most e...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changi...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rath...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI …he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation whic...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI … to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of th...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI ... Whoever becomes master of a city accustomed to live in freedom and does no destroy it, may recko...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Verträge bricht man um des Nutzens willen.
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