Beth

“Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, Mandragola

“In general you must either pamper people or destroy them; harm them just a little and they’ll hit back; harm them seriously and they won’t be able to. So if you’re going to do people harm, make sure you needn’t worry about their reaction.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Any injury we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.”
― Machiavelli, Niccolo, The Prince

“It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli