Saturday, June 21, 2008

Niccolò Machiavelli died today – 481 years ago

Author (of The Prince and Discourses on Livy) Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was born on May 3, 1469 in Florence, Italy. He said, “Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions." [It’s a good thing that women aren’t that way.]... Mr. Machiavelli died on June 21, 1527 in Florence, Italy.

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