Niccolo Machiavelli: "Men rise from one ambition to…"

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人は一つの野心から別の野心へと進み、最初は攻撃から身を守ろうとし、その後他者を攻撃する。

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“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared”

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