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APPENDIX. 211

because we cannot easily oppose ourselves to what We have been accustomed to desire; secondly, that, having repeatedly been prosperous in one way, we cannot easily persuade ourselves that we shall be equally in another. And this may be considered the true cause why a prince's condition is frequently so changeable, because fortune varies with the times, and he does not alter his conduct in conformity to such variations. And the same is correct in regard to a commonwealth: if altera- tions of times are unattended to, and their laws re- main unchanged, many dangers may be appre- hended, and the government be overturned, as we have before argued at length, &c.

REFLECTIONS ON LIVY,
lib. III. c. 9.

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