Never let any Government imagine that it can choose perfectly safe cou… — The Prince

The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli

Never let any Government imagine that it can choose perfectly safe courses; rather let it expect to have to take very doubtful ones, because it is found in ordinary affairs that one never seeks to avoid one trouble without running into another; but prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil.

Место: CHAPTER XIX -- THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED · ¶269
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