The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.


Book 2, Ch. 3 (translation by Mansfield and Tarcov) - Discourses on Livy (1517)

Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.