Lexi Hart

“but it’s exhausting to keep tabs on how much someone is feeling for you. It can make you forget that they feel too.”
― Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams

“The people, as Cicero says, may be ignorant, but they can recognize the truth and will readily yield when some trustworthy man explains it to them.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“A sculptor will more easily extract a beautiful statue from a piece of rough marble than from one that has been badly blocked out by someone else.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“If princes are indeed superior to the people in enacting laws, in organizing civil governments, in setting up new statues and ordinances, then doubtless the people are so superior in maintaining what has been instituted that they increase the glory of those who instituted them.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince