"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.“
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"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."
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"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
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"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
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"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."
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"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
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"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
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"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
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"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
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