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Quotation from Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavelli
“all men are bad, and will always, when they have free field, give loose to their evil inclinations”
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book I, ch. III, trans. Ninian Hill Thomson (1883)
The assumption Machiavelli says every lawgiver must make, introducing the account of how the tribunes were created in Rome.
Citation: "all men are bad, and will always, when they have free field, give loose to their evil inclinations" — Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book I, ch. III, trans. Ninian Hill Thomson (1883). (id machiavelli-discourses-on-livy-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, Santi di Tito, Public domain.
