Excerpt from The Conspirators, or the Case of Catiline: As Collected From the Best Historians, Impartially Examin'd; With Respect to His Declared and Covert Abettors, and the Artifices Used to Screen the Conspirators From Punishment Macaravrr.r P machiavel, I remember, -.gives it for his Opinion, that it is fater for Princes to injure Men in their Liver, that in their-fortune's; for he obferves, that dead Men' cannot think of Re? Venge, and the' living foon forget the dead' But you cannot dilirefs a Man fo in his Circum; fiances, as totally. To deprive him of the Power of Revenge. The pooreli Man will find a Knife for a defperate Blow; and he that feels the Cru; elty and Oppreliion of Tyranny, will become a dangerous Enemy, whenever Opportunity pre fents its feif. It is therefore a hazardous thing for a Prince to drive Men to defpair 5. Fineehe, who once is brought to defpife his-own. Life, is certainly Matter of another Man's. Philoo of Macedon was kili'd by Ponfonios in the midpt of his Guards, sandrfo was Harry the Fourth, of France by villiflc. Examples, indeed, of this extravagant Daring are but few 5 for a regard to, Self-prefervation'is natural to Man in all Cir -cuniliances of Life, and it feldom happens that we chufe to runupon certain Death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.