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“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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