“ Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. ”
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532). copy citation
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1532
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English
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Translated by W. K. Marriott