The Prince (trans. W. K. Marriott, 1908)writing · 1513 (pub. 1532)DirectVerified quotation — claim 01“it appears to me more appropriate to follow up the real truth of the matter than the imagination of it; for many have pictured republics and principalities which in fact have never been known or seen, because how one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation” — Niccolò Machiavelli · trans. W. K. Marriott, 1908
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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (trans. Ninian Hill Thomson, 1883)writing · c. 1513–1519 (pub. 1531)DirectNo passage is mapped to this claim. Sources are listed for provenance; a quotation appears only when it has been verified for the specific claim.