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... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of the country are spent in guarding it so that the gai...more

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When evening comes, I go back home, and go to my study. On the threshold I take off my work clothes, covered in mud and filth, and put on the clothes ...more

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It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he ...more

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... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.