For of men it may generally be affirmed that they are ungrateful, fickle, false,... — Machiavelli | Quoted Truth

For of men it may generally be affirmed that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are entirely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons, as I have before said, when the necessity is remote; but when it approaches nearer to you they turn against you.

— Machiavelli Early Modern

The Prince, political philosophy

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The Prince, Chapter XVII: Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether it is Better to be Loved or Feared

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1532

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