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Modern Caesar
@ModernCeasar
I reveal the stories of history’s most powerful leaders so you can think, act and lead like them today. | Engineering student
Sep 12 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Machiavelli didn’t think peace kept republics alive.

He thought conflict did.

Where others praised harmony, he claimed liberty was born from struggle between people and elites.

Why would the “prophet of tyranny” call discord the engine of freedom? 🧵 Niccolo Machiavelli This wasn’t armchair theory.

For 14 years, Machiavelli worked as a diplomat of the Florentine Republic, watching rulers across Europe.

He saw tyrannies look powerful and then crumble.

But republics, noisy and divided, endured. Statue of Niccolo Machiavelli in Uffizi