Not a teaser, not a spoiler, not even story material...

[DHBirr]

Ebony wrote:

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DHBirr wrote:

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And a bit of practical advice for people in authority:
"So any injury a prince does a man should be of such a kind that there is no fear of revenge."
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. by George Bull

Or, if you prefer a more modern translation:
"You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get Capone." - Officer Jim Malone, Chicago PD, "The Untouchables"
  

A magazine article listing alleged "Mafia Maxims" ("The fish is killed by its open mouth.") had a another version, closer in phrasing to Machiavelli's but as blunt as Malone's.  Without digging up the article to make sure I'm getting it exactly, it went something like:  "If you must hurt a man, make sure that you hurt him so brutally that you need not fear his revenge."  
I nearly posted that rather than the Machiavelli  in the first place.
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