Niccolò Machiavelli (c. 1469-1527)
“It cannot be called virtue to kill one’s fellow-citizens, betray one’s friends, be without faith, without pity, and without religion; by these methods one may indeed gain power, but not glory.”
- From The Prince (chapter 8) by Machiavelli, translated and printed by the Henry Regnery Company, 1948.
