Discourses on Livy Quotes

“He who wishes to make a republic where there are very many gentlemen cannot do it unless he first eliminates all of them; and that he who is where there is very much equality and wishes to make a kingdom or a principality will never be able to make it unless he draws from that equality many of ambitious and unquiet spirit and makes them gentlemen in fact.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy