Can you name the quotes from Machiavelli or Voltaire?

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  • Decide whether each quote is from Machiavelli or Voltaire. Place an M for a Machiavelli quote and a V for a Voltaire quote.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets
Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts
Man is free at the instant he wants to be
It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one
God creates men, but they choose each other
To hold a pen is to be at war
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content
Clever tyrants are never punished
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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature
Anything too stupid to be said is sung
War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities
It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong
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