When trouble is sensed well in advance it can easily be remedied; if you wait for it to show itself any medicine will be too late because the disease… - Niccolò Machiavelli

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When trouble is sensed well in advance it can easily be remedied; if you wait for it to show itself any medicine will be too late because the disease will have become incurable. As the doctors say of a wasting disease, to start with it is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose;after a time, unless it has been diagnosed and treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. So it is in politics.