"Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that……" — Niccolo Machiavelli
"Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation."
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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303 Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
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