"Men are driven by two principal impulses,..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.”

“Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.”

“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”

“The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.”

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”

“This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a meal, or a drink, or a sleep, or a joke, or a girl, may come in between them and it, and then (even if you are a queen) you'll get no more good out of them until they've had their way.”

“A life without LOVE isn’t a life.”

“A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.”

“To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.”