Men are by nature much more inclined to evil than to good; and therefore, if you would have the good, you must put them under the necessity of being so.
— Machiavelli Early Modern

The Prince, political philosophy

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Discourses on Livy, Book I, Chapter III

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1531

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1041/1041-h/1041-h.htm#link2H_4_0003

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