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The Imperial Machiavelli. Tiberius, the Roman emperor. (B.C. 42 to A.D. 37.)
His political axiom was—“He who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to reign.” It was also the axiom of Louis XI. of France.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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