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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes: Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.
         

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.


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