Tao Te Ching

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“any one whose ambition so far misleads him as to call in strangers to aid in his defense, seeks to acquire that which he will not be able to hold.,,, to gratify a present desire, they think not of the evils which will in a short time result from it.”

Machiavelli 1469 – 1527 CE via Luigi Ricci
(Niccolò Machiavelli)
from Discourses on Livy

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Themes

Ambition