Sublime

Now the enemy is making peace with the surrounding neighbors and calling loudly for you to put down your own weapons. Long experience tells you this must be a trick also. You’re down to your last scraps of strength and can’t afford a mistake.

As the great Renaissance diplomat and courtier Niccolò Machiavelli wrote, “Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”

"It is indeed probable that the men who are best fitted to discharge the duties of this high office would have too much reserve in their manners, and too much austerity in their principles, for them to be returned by the majority at an election where universal suffrage is adopted."

But that is not a man, that’s a mushroom!”

He has integrity. He does what is right, not what is expedient.