"The end justifies the means."
— Misquotations
January 1, 1970
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Often misattributed to Machiavelli's The Prince, in which the idea appears, but not the phrase itself, and to many other writers who repeat this aphorism at least as old as Ovid, Heroides (c. 10 BC): Exitus acta probat. See also: Means and ends.
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Often misattributed to Machiavelli's The Prince, in which the idea appears, but not the phrase itself, and to many other writers who repeat this aphorism at least as old as Ovid, Heroides (c. 10 BC): Exitus acta probat. See also: Means and ends.