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1  And, in truth, no course can be more pernicious.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLV.
2  But, indeed, there can be no better witness to the truth of my contention than Titus Livius himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
3  The truth of what I say is confirmed by numberless examples both Roman and foreign, modern and ancient.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LIII.
4  For though they be ignorant, the people are not therefore, as Cicero says, incapable of being taught the truth, but are readily convinced when it is told them by one in whose honesty they can trust.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV.
5  These qualities were, in truth, so remarkable that the very magistrates, not to speak of others, stood in awe of his authority, a circumstance displeasing to prudent citizens, as before unheard of in Rome.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIX.
6  That among this last-named people a great share of the ancient excellence does in truth still flourish, I shall show by an example similar to that which I have above related of the senate and people of Rome.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LV.
7  Again, as to the justice of their opinions on public affairs, seldom find that after hearing two speakers of equal ability urging them in opposite directions, they do not adopt the sounder view, or are unable to decide on the truth of what they hear.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LVIII.
8  For our religion, having revealed to us the truth and the true path, teaches us to make little account of worldly glory; whereas, the Gentiles, greatly esteeming it, and placing therein their highest good, displayed a greater fierceness in their actions.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
9  And, in truth, among the institutions of Rome, this of the dictatorship deserves our special admiration, and to be linked with the chief causes of her greatness; for without some such safeguard a city can hardly pass unharmed through extraordinary dangers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
10  For though the multitude be unfit to set a State in order, since they cannot, by reason of the divisions which prevail among them, agree wherein the true well-being of the State lies, yet when they have once been taught the truth, they never will consent to abandon it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX.
11  For in truth, in a commonwealth, and especially in one which has become corrupted, there is no better, or easier, or less objectionable way of opposing the ambition of any citizen, than to anticipate him in those paths by which he is seen to be advancing to the ends he has in view.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LII.
12  And, in truth, in the country where virtue like this does not exist, no good can be looked for, as we should look for it in vain in provinces which at the present day are seen to be corrupted; as Italy is beyond all others, though, in some degree, France and Spain are similarly tainted.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LV.
13  And, in truth, the sole object of this system of taking the auspices was to insure the army joining battle with that confidence of success which constantly leads to victory; a device followed not by the Romans only, but by foreign nations as well; of which I shall give an example in the following Chapter.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV.
14  Whether in this he said truth or no, I take not on me to pronounce, since of so great a man we must speak with reverence; but this I do say, that very many believed him without having witnessed anything extraordinary to warrant their belief; his life, his doctrines, the matter whereof he treated, being sufficient to enlist their faith.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI.
15  But it may be answered that the case of Venice is not in truth an instance to the contrary; since the gentlemen of Venice are gentlemen rather in name than in reality, inasmuch as they draw no great revenues from lands, their wealth consisting chiefly in merchandise and chattels, and not one of them possessing a castle or enjoying any feudal authority.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LV.
16  Whoever takes upon him to reform the government of a city, must, if his measures are to be well received and carried out with general approval, preserve at least the semblance of existing methods, so as not to appear to the people to have made any change in the old order of things; although, in truth, the new ordinances differ altogether from those which they replace.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV.
17  The contrary, however, is the case with the things we see, and in which we take part; for in these, from our complete acquaintance with them, no part of them being hidden from us, we recognize, along with much that is good, much that displeases us, and so are forced to pronounce them far inferior to the old, although in truth they deserve far greater praise and admiration.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LX.
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