There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
Niccolo MachiavelliMen rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.
Niccolo Machiavelli