| Back | Make not many proclamations; but those thou makest take care that they be good ones, and above all that they be observed and carried out; for proclamations that are not observed are the same as if they did not exist; nay, they encourage the idea that the prince who had the wisdom and authority to make them had not the power to enforce them; and laws that threaten and are not enforced come to be like the log, the king of the frogs, that frightened them at first, but that in time they despised and mounted upon. |
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| Front | No hagas muchas pragmáticas; y si las hicieres, procura que sean buenas, y, sobre todo, que se guarden y cumplan; que las pragmáticas que no se guardan, lo mismo es que si no lo fuesen; antes dan a entender que el príncipe que tuvo discreción y autoridad para hacerlas, no tuvo valor para hacer que se guardasen; y las leyes que atemorizan y no se ejecutan, vienen a ser como la viga, rey de las ranas: que al principio las espantó, y con el tiempo la menospreciaron y se subieron sobre ella. |
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