"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure”

“The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.”

“I hope and hoping feeds my painI weep and weeping feeds my failing heartI laugh but the laughter does not pass withinI burn but the burning makes no mark outside.”

“Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.”

“Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.”

“Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.”

“International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.”

“Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.”

“The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.”