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In Pablo’s worldview, no one acted on principle. They pursued what was in their own best interests.
“Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: “The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe.” Sorel”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“If the Germans come’, Marshal Smigly-Rydz9 had stated only a month before, in August 1939, ‘we lose our freedom. If the Russians come, we lose our souls.”
― The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939–40
― The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939–40
“above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides,”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;”
― The Prince
― The Prince
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