Niccolò Machiavelli
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Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher and historian of the Italian Renaissance.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 3 May 1469, Florence (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 21 Jun 1527, aged 58; buried in the Church of Santa Croce, Florence (opens wiqqi.app)
- Office: Secretary to the second chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512 (opens wiqqi.app)
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25 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Rome's tumults led not to banishment or violence but to laws that favoured public liberty (opens korrents.com)
“For he who looks well to the results of these tumults will find that they did not lead to banishments, nor to violence hurtful to the common good, but to laws and ordinances beneficial to the public liberty.”
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Where monarchy, aristocracy and democracy coexist in one city, each checks the others (opens korrents.com)
“For where we have a monarchy, an aristocracy, and a democracy existing together in the same city, each of the three serves as a check upon the other.”
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A state's institutions must be founded or wholly recast by a single person (opens korrents.com)
“But we must take it as a rule to which there are very few if any exceptions, that no commonwealth or kingdom ever has salutary institutions given it from the first or has its institutions recast in an entirely new…”
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Rome's tumults led not to banishment or violence but to laws that favoured public liberty (opens korrents.com)