The Historical, Political, and Diplomatic Writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, Vol. 1 of 4: Translated from the Italian (Classic Reprint)

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Machiavellism, which has been generally adopted in Euro pean languages. Later, no less a personage than Freder ick the Great, while Crown Prince of Prussia, published his Anti Machiavelli, which, it is said, he somewhat regretted after having become king; and of which a Frenchman said, with as much wit perhaps as truth, that the greatest homage which any prince had ever paid to the doctrines of Machia velli was to have refuted him, so that he might follow his precepts with the greater impunity.

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