Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Thucydides
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By equating the strength of the strong to what they can do, Niccolo Machiavelli was saying that people should be judged by how they act rather than what they say. He believed that people should be judged by their actions and not by their intentions. His ideas are often associated with modern democratic societies, which teach that power is not earned through the use of force but by the skillful use of words.

Source: History Of The Peloponnesian War

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