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The first impression that one gets of a ruler and of his brains is from seeing the men that he has about him. - Niccolò Machiavelli (The Prince Quotes)

The first impression that one gets of a ruler and of his brains is from seeing the men that he has about him.[E la prima coniettura che si fa di un signore, e del cervel suo, è vedere gli uomini che lui ha d’intorno.]

Source:(Oxford University Press, ed. 1921), Chapter XXII, Page 92
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Niccoló Machiavelli (The Prince Quotes)
  • Book: The Prince
  • Writer: Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Genre: Philosophy, Politics
  • Published: 1532
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