"Occasionally words must serve to veil the..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.”

“Change has no constituency.”

“We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.”

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”

“There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.”

“Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.”

“You must look at facts, because they look at you.”

“No man should be angry with what is true.”

“Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.”