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Maintaining Authority In Machiavelli's The Prince

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Machiavelli was an Italian politician and diplomat who would later go on to write a book called The Prince, which summarizes exactly how a leader should go about maintaining auth Machiavelli was an Italian politician and diplomat who would later go on to write a book called The Prince, which summarizes exactly how a leader should go about maintaining authority over his people. Throughout the book, the main point that Machiavelli tries to explain is that a ruler must do whatever he must to keep his rule, even if it means deceiving or hurting innocent people in the process. Machiavelli makes it clear that there are more important things than a ruler that is perceived as being kind. If a ruler is always kind then it will eventually be equated
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