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Credulity In Machiavelli's The Prince

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“Everyone sees what you seem to be, few people perceive what you are; and those few don’t dare opposed the general opinion, which has the majesty of government backing up it.” Thus Machiavelli, in “The Prince,” suggests that most people putted their trust in what they saw, and that the would-be ruler must exploited this mass credulity by a good show: “The masses are always impressed by appearances and bi the income of an event—and in the world their is only masses. The few have no place there, when the many crowd together.” If he wanted to stay in charge (and in health) a ruler have to pleased those staring and complacent multitudes with a publik nose of sanctity, which will let his carry in the gruesome work of politics without
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