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Whoever wants a magistrate not to be given to a vile or wicked person should make it requested by either someone too vile and too wicked, or by someone too noble and too good. chap. 48. p. 67

If those cities that have had a free beginning, like Rome, have difficulty in finding laws that maintain them, those that have them immediately in servitude have almost an impossibility. chap. 49. p. 68

A council or a magistrate should not be able to stop the actions of the city. chap. 50. p. 69

A Republic or a Prince should show that they do out of liberality that to which necessity forces them. chap. 51. p. 70

To repress the insolence of one who rises in a powerful Republic, there is no more secure and less scandalous way than to preempt the paths through which he comes to that power. chap. 52. p. 70

The people often desire their own ruin, deceived by a false appearance of good, and how great hopes and bold promises easily move them. chap. 53. p. 72

How much authority a great man has to restrain an excited multitude. chap. 54. p. 74

How easily things are conducted in that city where the multitude is not corrupt; and that where there is equality, one cannot make a Principality, and where there is not, one cannot make a Republic. chap. 55. p. 75

Before great accidents follow in a city or in a province, signs come that prognosticate them, or men who predict them. chap. 56. p. 77

The plebs together are strong, but by themselves they are weak. chap. 57. p. 78

The multitude is wiser and more constant than a prince. chap. 58. p. 79