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Machiavelli held that every institution is gradually corrupted and must be reformed back to its foundations or collapse under the weight of that corruption.

Drawn from what Ada Palmer said

Mental modelEverything decays without maintenance

What Ada Palmer actually said

  1. Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
    All institutions are gradually corrupted and need to be reformed and returned to their foundations, or they will collapse under the weight of their corruption.

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    16 Jun 2026 · video · 2h 08m · spoken · machine transcript

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