“Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.”
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 14; translated by W. K. Marriot
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Italian politician, Writer and Author 1469–1527Related quotes

“It will bring you light even among the darkest shadows of this world and others”
Source: City of Bones

§ IV
1910s, At the Feet of the Master (1911)
Context: Superstition is another mighty evil, and has caused much terrible cruelty. The man who is a slave to it despises others who are wiser, tries to force them to do as he does. Think of the awful slaughter produced by the superstition that animals should be sacrificed, and by the still more cruel superstition that man needs flesh for food. Think of the treatment which superstition has meted out to the depressed classes in our beloved India, and see in that how this evil quality can breed heartless cruelty even among those who know the duty of brotherhood. Many crimes have men committed in the name of the God of Love, moved by this nightmare of superstition; be very careful therefore that no slightest trace of it remains in you.
“An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. ”

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis