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Quotation from Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavelli
“Now the way to renew them is, as I have said, to bring them back to their beginnings”
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book III, ch. I, trans. Ninian Hill Thomson (1883)
The principle of renewal applied to republics, kingdoms and religious bodies alike.
Citation: "Now the way to renew them is, as I have said, to bring them back to their beginnings" — Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book III, ch. I, trans. Ninian Hill Thomson (1883). (id machiavelli-discourses-on-livy-q7)
Portrait: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, Santi di Tito, Public domain.
