When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.
Niccolo MachiavelliMen judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
Niccolo MachiavelliAnd if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.
Niccolo Machiavelli