“Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”

—  Niccolo Machiavelli , book The Prince

Source: The Prince

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Italian politician, Writer and Author 1469–1527

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