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Rome's tumults led not to banishment or violence but to laws that favoured public liberty
Drawn from what Niccolò Machiavelli said
What Niccolò Machiavelli actually said
- Niccolò Machiavelli Florentine political philosopher and diplomat (1469 to 1527)
For he who looks well to the results of these tumults will find that they did not lead to banishments, nor to violence hurtful to the common good, but to laws and ordinances beneficial to the public liberty.
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↗Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (Ninian Hill Thomson translation, 1883)gutenberg.org
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