"War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.“
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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"War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans."
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"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
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"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
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"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
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