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The Discourses on Livy, Book 1, Introduction (1517) [tr. Detmold (1882)] - Machiavelli, Niccolo | WIST Quotations
Whoever 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 occasion for it. Alt. trans.: "It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for…