I return often to Machiavelli's writings, for the insights offered therein have a timeless quality about them. His political philosophy takes human nature to be a constant factor that rarely, if ever, changes for large swaths of humanity.

And yet most have only heard of or have read "The Prince." Should serious readers desire to broaden their understanding of the Florentine, then they must read his best treatise, "The Discourses on Livy."

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