Machiavelli — "It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presupp…"

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are bad, and that they will use their malignity of mind whenever they have a free opportunity to do so.
Machiavelli — Machiavelli Early Modern · The Prince, political philosophy

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Discourses on Livy, Book I, Chapter III

Date: 1531

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