QuoteQuest“When Scipio became consul and was keen on getting the province of Africa, promising that Carthage should be completely destroyed, and the senate would not agree to this because Fabius Maximus was against it, he threatened to appeal to the people, for he knew full well how pleasing such projects are to the populace.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Book 1, Ch. 53 (tr. Walker and Crick)
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Machiavelli, Niccolò. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Niccolò Machiavelli. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccolò_Machiavelli
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