Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

• Revenge
• Hatred
• Vitality
• Republics
• Fierced

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• But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Revenge
  • Hatred
  • Vitality