Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with ass…

Niccolo Machiavelli
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Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. ✨ Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.
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Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. ✨ Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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