“… This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely: they will offer you their blood, property, life and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.”-chapter 17, The Prince
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Machiavelli, such an optimist
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