Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Whether This Has Ever Happened I Know Not, Nor Whether It Ever Can Happen. For We See, As I Have Said A Little Way Back, That A City Which Owing To Its Pervading Corruption Has Once Begun To Decline, If It Is To Recover At All, Must Be Saved Not By The Excellence Of The People Collectively, But Of Some One Man Then Living Among Them, On Whose Death It At Once Relapses Into Its Former Plight; As Happened With Thebes, In Which The Virtue Of Epaminondas Made It Possible While He Lived To Preserve The Form Of A Free Government, But Which Fell Again On His Death Into Its Old Disorders; The Reason Being That Hardly Any Ruler Lives So Long As To Have Time To Accustom To Right Methods A City Which Has Long Been Accustomed To Wrong.

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