"Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure."

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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

— Niccolo Machiavelli