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Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what ...

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Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts ...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their r...

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Jonathan Edwards (theologian)The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader

No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. A...

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Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole ch...

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Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if yo...

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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither abilit...

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