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Quotation from Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavelli
“since we can have no surer sign of the decay of a province than to see Divine worship held therein in contempt.”
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book I, ch. XII, trans. Ninian Hill Thomson (1883)
The opening of his chapter on the importance of religion to the health of states.
Citation: "since we can have no surer sign of the decay of a province than to see Divine worship held therein in contempt." — Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book I, ch. XII, trans. Ninian Hill Thomson (1883). (id machiavelli-discourses-on-livy-q4)
Portrait: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, Santi di Tito, Public domain.
