Machiavelli (c. 1469-1527)
“It is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.”
- From The Prince (chapter 18) by Machiavelli, translated and printed by the Henry Regnery Company, 1948.
