On Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes

“defect (4.1); an examination of the causal relationship between virtue and quiet, quiet and idleness, idleness and disorder, disorder and ruin, ruin and order, and—in a circular fashion—order and virtue (the last one being the mother of “glory” and “good fortune”) (5.1); a lamentation of the mercenary armies’ flaws (6.1); a comparative assessment of (good) divisions “without sects” and (bad) divisions “with sects” (7.1); and an appraisal of the failed conspiracies’ deleterious effects (8.1).”
― Gabriele Pedullà, On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics