Political literature · Philosophical literatureWhoever 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 occasions for it.Niccolo MachiavelliDiscourses on Livy · 1531★ 6.2
Political literature · Philosophical literatureIt is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.Niccolo Machiavelli1531★ 3.7
Political literature · Philosophical literatureThe cause of the bad and of the good fortune of men is the way in which their method of working fits the times.Niccolo Machiavelli1531★ 2.1
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