“Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.” (Machiavelli, c.1513).
Machiavelli's instructions to diplomat Raffaello Girolami, as quoted in Arthur Koestler's Darkness At Noon (1941)
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