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Discourses on Livy
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Machiavelli's republican side: how Rome stayed free, the value of conflict, corruption and renewal. The necessary companion to The Prince.
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you think Machiavelli only wrote The Prince.
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Three things you will actually use
- Conflict can preserve liberty.
- Return to first principles.
- Republics outlast princes.
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Read Book One, chapters one through ten.
Our verdict
Machiavelli the republican.
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