The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Alba, and Ostia, did not destroy them, but gave them their own laws and left them free, and they did not hold them without difficulty.
— Machiavelli Early Modern

The Prince, political philosophy

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Discourses on Livy, Book II, Chapter 23

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1531

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1233/1233-h/1233-h.htm

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