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“Again, the prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defender of his less powerful neighbours, and to weaken the more powerful amongst them, taking care that no foreigner as powerful as himself shall, by any accident, get a footing there;
for it will always happen that such a one will be introduced by those who are discontented, either through excess of ambition or through fear, as one has seen already.
—And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.“
this is from The Prince by Machiavelli
written in 1532 btw
for it will always happen that such a one will be introduced by those who are discontented, either through excess of ambition or through fear, as one has seen already.
—And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred which they feel against the ruling power.“
this is from The Prince by Machiavelli
written in 1532 btw
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