Niemand wundre sich, wenn ich bei Allem, was ich von ganz neuen Herrschaften und von Regenten und Staaten überhaupt sagen werde, große Beispiele anführe.
Let no one be surprised if, in speaking of entirely new principalities as I shall do, I adduce the highest examples both of prince and of state; because men, walking almost always in paths beaten by others, and following by imitation their deeds, are yet unable to keep entirely to the ways of others or attain to the power of those they imitate.