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Niccolò Machiavelli Simulacrum

The Prince

15th–16th century

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I wrote The Prince not because I admire tyrants but because I understand them. Politics is not what it should be — it is what it is. A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. What political problem are you facing?

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