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Machiavelli cycle
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The Machiavelli cycle, much like the Tytler cycle and the Playfair cycle, reminds us that societies evolve in an observable pattern: :It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, :pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; :for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, :when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, :they soon begin to decline. :In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, :and sunk to their utmost state of depression, :unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; :and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, :and from evil again return to good. :The reason is, that :valor produces peace; :peace, repose; :repose, disorder; :disorder, ruin; :so from disorder order springs; :from order virtue, and from this, :glory and good fortune. 
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