Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolò Machiavelli

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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