Civil Integration - Let them hear what a real audible weapon sounds like
Channel: Raw A/V Archive
Date: 2016-01-15

Whatever has happened before or is happening now will repeat itself in the future. But the names and surfaces of things will have changed, and unless we have a discerning eye, we won't recognize them and act or judge accordingly. (76)


…Faith breeds obstinacy—for faith is no more than believing firmly and almost with certainty things that are not in themselves reasonable; or if reasonable, believing them more unreservedly than reason warrants.

Therefore, he who has faith becomes stubborn in his belief, and goes on his way resolute and intrepid, disregarding difficulties and dangers, and ready to suffer every extremity.

And so it happens that, as the things of this world are subject to infinite changes and chances, unlooked for help may come in many ways over time to one who has obstinately persevered. And when this perseverance is the result of faith, it may well be said that faith can accomplish great things.

We currently have a great example of such stubbornness of the Florentines—a group who, contrary to all human reason, prepared themselves to await the joint attack of Pope and Emperor, with no hope of receiving help for anyone else, with disunity among themselves, and with difficulties facing them on every side. For seven months, they have managed to fight off the assaults of armies, even though it seemed impossible for them to do so even for seven days.

In fact, they have brought things to such a point that if they were to win now, no one would be surprised, whereas earlier, everyone assumed they would lose.

And this stubbornness of theirs is mainly due to the belief that—as Friar Girolamo of Ferrara told them in his sermons—they cannot be destroyed. (1)


If princes, when all goes well with them, make little account of their servants, and slight them or set them aside for the most minor of reasons, how can they be displeased or complain if their dutiful, loyal, honorable servants leave them and accept other more profitable employment? (4)


Pay more attention to what people should be expected to do based on their disposition and habits, and less attention to what's reasonable for them to do. (151) [Consider what people really are, as opposed to merely thinking that they'll be reasonable.]


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