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1. A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.

“She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature”
“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
“Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.”
“Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.”

2. You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool’s end.

“Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.”

“You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a ‘yes’. Or you have to make them say ‘no.’ You have to take time and trouble.”

“He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, “Life is so beautiful.”
… Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, “Life is so beautiful,” then nothing else is important.”

3. When they come… they come at what you love.

“There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don’t try to justify them. They can’t be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.”

“The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable.”

4. Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.

“None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it’s too hard a life.”
“A man in my position can’t afford to be made to look ridiculous!”
“treachery can’t be forgiven.”
“Every man has one destiny.”

5. Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not.

“What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.”

“He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.”

6. He should be careful. It’s dangerous to be an honest man.

“Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that’s why they have godfathers. Since Johnny’s father died, Mr. Corleone feels his responsibility even more deeply. As for trying you again, Mr. Corleone is much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the first.”

7. You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell.

“The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.”
“Lampone made a gesture that said he would be patient, knowing his reward was certain.”
“The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.”

8. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

“Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society. The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.”

9. Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when it is cold”
“He had been a tough teenager in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen.”

“Writing, like gambling, was always a big part of my life,” he used to say. “Both gave me sanctuary from the world. And you never really had to kill someone to get what you wanted. You just had to beat fate.”

10. A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man.

“But time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty.”
“The meeting would be safe as a wedding.”
“Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”

11. Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

“Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, “Life is so beautiful,” then nothing else is important. If I can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters. He would follow his father. He would care for his children, his family, his world. But his children would grow in a different world. They would be doctors, artists, scientists. Governors. Presidents. Anything at all. He would see to it that they joined the general family of humanity, but he, as a powerful and prudent parent, would most certainly keep a wary eye on that general family.”

12. Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

“All of these men were good listeners, patient men. They had one other thing in common. They were those rarities, men who had refused to accept the rule of organized society, men who refused the dominion of other men. There was no force, no mortal man who could bend them to their will unless they wished it. They were men who guarded their free will with wiles and murder. Their wills could be subverted only by death. Or the utmost reasonableness.”

13. A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

“Don Corleone was too weak to speak much but he wished to listen and exercise veto powers.”

“The premium put on virginity by socially primitive people. It was a period of sensuality that he had never before experienced, a sensuality mixed with a feeling of masculine power.”

14. Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.

“It pleased him to see the hurt look on her face, the tears springing into her eyes. She might be a daughter of the Great Don but she was his wife, she was his property now and he could treat her as he pleased. It made him feel powerful that one of the Corleones was his doormat.”

15. Never let anyone know what you are thinking.

“Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.”

16. Great men are not born great, they grow great . 

“Used to tell people, ‘Don’t eat so much or you’ll die, don’t smoke so much or you’ll die, don’t work so much or you’ll die, don’t drink so much or you’ll die.’ Nobody listens. You know why? Because I don’t say, ‘You will die tomorrow.”

17. Tell my father I wish to be his son.

“Kay could see how Michael stood to receive their homage. He reminded her of statues in Rome, statues of those Roman emperors of antiquity, who, by divine right, held the power of life and death over their fellow men. One hand was on his hip, the profile of his face showed a cold proud power, his body was carelessly, arrogantly at ease, weight resting on one foot slightly behind the other. The caporegimes stood before him. In that moment Kay knew that everything Connie had accused Michael of was true. She went back into the kitchen and wept.”

18. Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

“Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money.”
“This country has been good to me.”
“Anybody. She uses her body like I use the loose”

19. In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

“Have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.”

“Never get angry,” the Don had instructed. “Never make a threat. Reason with people.”