The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. (Niccolò Machiavelli)

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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