“I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517), Book 2, Ch. 29, tr. Walker and Crick

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1469 – 1527

Florentine diplomat and political philosopher, author of 'The Prince' (1513) and 'Discourses on Livy'.

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