QuoteQuest“Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force to rise from a base condition to great fortune.”
Verification
AttributedRecorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Book 2, Ch. 13 (tr. )
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Machiavelli, Niccolò. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Niccolò Machiavelli. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccolò_Machiavelli
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