Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
From Lord Acton
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
3 perspectives
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