Monday, June 07, 2021

 

A Necessary Presupposition

Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy I.3.1 (tr. Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov):
It is necessary to whoever disposes a republic and orders laws in it to presuppose that all men are bad, and that they always have to use the malignity of their spirit whenever they have a free opportunity for it.

È necessario a chi dispone una repubblica, ed ordina leggi in quella, presupporre tutti gli uomini essere cattivi, e che gli abbiano sempre ad usare la malignità dell'animo loro, qualunque volta ne abbiano libera occasione.



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