“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
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“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
“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
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