Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Aesop (620?-560? BC) Legendary Greek storyteller
Fables [Aesopica], “The Swallow and the Other Birds” (6th C BC) [tr. Jacobs (1894)]
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Necessity may force you to do unto the prince that which you see the prince about to do to you.
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Italian politician, philosopher, political scientist
The Discourses on Livy, Book 3, ch. 6 (1517) [tr. Detmold (1882)]
See Matthew 7:12.
