If a prince wants to maintain his rule, he must learn how not to be virtuous, and to make use of this or not, according to need.
— Machiavelli Early Modern

The Prince, political philosophy

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Context

The Prince, Chapter XV: Concerning Things for Which Men, and Especially Princes, Are Praised or Blamed

Date / Period

1532

Category

Shocking

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm#link2H_4_0007

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Unverifiable

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