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[theweaselking]

"[M]en never work any good except through necessity, but where choice abounds and one can make use of license, at once everything is full of confusion and disorder. Therefore it is said that hunger and poverty make men industrious, and laws make them good. Where a thing works well on its own without the law, the law is not necessary; but when some good custom is lacking, at once the law is necessary."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy 1:3