Machiavelli on the danger of believing exiles

ViaIn Defense of the Late Ahmad Chalabi: chapter 31 of Niccolò Machiavelli’s book Discourses on Livy,“How Dangerous It Is to Believe Exiles”: "How dangerous a thing it is to believe those who have been driven out of their country. … Such is the extreme desire in them to return home, that they naturally believe many things that are false and add many others by art, so that between those they