Men get tired of prosperity, just as they are afflicted by the reverse. This love of change, then, so to speak opens the way to everyone who takes the lead in any innovation in any country.
The Discourses III, 21.
The people are often deceived by an illusive good, desire their own ruin, and, unless they are made sensible of the evil of the one and the benefit of the other course by some one in whom they have confidence, they will expose the republic to infinite peril and damage.
The Discourses I, 53.
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