QuoteQuest“It is enough to ask somebody for his weapons without saying 'I want to kill you with them', because when you have his weapons in hand, you can satisfy your desire.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Book 1, Chapter 44 (tr. Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella)
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Machiavelli, Niccolò. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Niccolò Machiavelli. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccolò_Machiavelli
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