…men are quick to change ruler when they imagine they can improve their lot – it is this conviction that prompts them to take up arms and rebel – then later they discover they were wrong and that things have got worse rather than better.
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So not only do you make enemies of those whose interests you damaged… but you can’t even keep the friendship of the people who helped you take power, this for the simple reason that you can’t give them as much as they expected.– Niccoló Machiavelli on new monarchies
A bit of a pretentious knobhead with thoughts too big for his head and a need to get them out to leave room for other things.