Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Machiavelli

The Imperial Machiavelli. Tiberius, the Roman emperor. (B.C. 42 to A.D. 37.) His political axiom was “He who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to reign.” It was also the axiom of Louis XI. of France

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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