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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of… — Niccolo Machiavelli

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

In the original Italian

Dio non vuole fare ogni cosa.

Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince · 1532
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Current citation
Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Original citation
Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.

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