For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.
Niccolo MachiavelliYou do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.
Niccolo MachiavelliAny man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
Niccolo Machiavelli