Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. - Niccolò Machiavelli (Discourses on Livy Quotes)

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.[Li uomini salgono da una ambizione a un’altra; e prima si cerca non essere offeso, dipoi si offende altrui.]

Source:(Houghton, Mifflin and Co., ed. 1891), Book I, Chapter XLVI, Page 192
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