Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

These Republics [the German City States] In Which A Free And Pure Government Is Maintained Will Not Suffer Any Of Their Citizens Either To Be, Or To Live As Gentlemen; But On The Contrary, While Preserving Strict Equality Among Themselves, Are Bitterly Hostile To All Those Gentlemen And Lords Who Dwell In Their Neighbourhood; So That If By Chance Any Of These Fall Into Their Hand, They Put Them To Death, As The Chief Promoters Of Corruption And The Origin Of All Disorders.
But To Make Plain What I Mean When I Speak Of Gentlemen, I Say That Those Are So To Be Styled Who Live In Opulence And Idleness On The Revenues Of Their Estates, Without Concerning Themselves With The Cultivation Of These Estates, Or Incurring Any Other Fatigue For Their Support.
- Discourses On The First Decade Of Titus Livius

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