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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
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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