It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they…

Niccolo Machiavelli
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline. ✨ Florentine Histories by Niccolò Machiavelli, book V, chapter 1, 1526.
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