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Whoever is responsible for another's becoming powerful ruins himself. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Treatise · Political literature · Philosophical literature

Whoever is responsible for another's becoming powerful ruins himself.

In the original Italian

Che chi è cagione che uno diventi potente, ruina.

Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince · 1513
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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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