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Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed or exempt from danger.
Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed or exempt from danger.
Approximate author period: c. 1498 AD · medieval
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- Niccolo Machiavelli
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- Approximate author period: c. 1498 AD · medieval
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Niccolo Machiavelli: recorded author lifetime 1469–1527. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1399 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is niccolo-machiavelli; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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