For where the fear of God is wanting, it is inevitable that the kingdom will come to ruin, or that it will be sustained by the fear of a prince, which will supply the want of religion.
— Machiavelli Early Modern

The Prince, political philosophy

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Discourses on Livy, Book I, Chapter XII

Date / Period

1531

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1041/1041-h/1041-h.htm#link2H_4_0009

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