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- Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
- Petrarch (1304 - 1374), De Remedies
- Who will bell the cat?
- William Langland (1332 - 1400), The Vision of Piers Plowman
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), Imitation of Christ
- First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), Imitation of Christ, 1420
- The world wants to be deceived.
- Sebastian Brant (1457 - 1521), The Ship of Fools
- The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
- Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
- There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527), The Prince
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