QuoteQuest“Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.”
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 1, Ch. 3 (tr. L. J. Walker and B. Crick)
Cite this source
Machiavelli, Niccolò. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Niccolò Machiavelli. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccolò_Machiavelli
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