When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they c…

Niccolo Machiavelli
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When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere. ✨ Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 5, as translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, 1517.
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When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere. ✨ Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 5, as translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, 1517.

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