Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
~ Auguste Comte
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Foreknowledge is power.
~ Auguste Comte
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We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.
~ Auguste Comte
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Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality.
~ Auguste Comte
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
~ Auguste Comte
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The dead govern the living.
~ Auguste Comte
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