A man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil. (Niccolò Machiavelli)

A man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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