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02/01/2008: "Machiavelli"

All courses of action are risky, so prudence
is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk
and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition
and not mistakes of sloth.
Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

- Niccolo Machiavelli