Jiang presents Machiavelli not simply as an amoral strategist but as a democratic Florentine who wrote The Prince to raise political awareness in a republic.
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THE Prince
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"...who we still read today. His most famous work is called The Prince. And The Prince is really one of the first political treatises..."
"...his eyes. At this I left those overburdened spirits while following the prince of his dear feet."
"...i became a friar and poor me it would have helped the prince of the new pharisees who then was waging war so near..."
"...discord or civil war between a father king and a son the prince okay um just for fun um who you put into this..."
"...leave my team and, but everything worked out great. I met the Prince of Johor. He was great. And they just have the same..."
"...because there were... A lot of them were saying that specifically. The Prince of Johor was talking about how important it is to push..."
"...tells me. Eagerly entertaining the hope that the moment is nigh. The prince over the water who will come to the rescue and achieve..."
"...usually what happens is that these factions are divided according to the princes."
"Okay? So if there are four princes, okay, who are about to inherit the throne, there are four different factions that support them. That..."
"...about it, you could say that, you know, the Moroni is the Prince of America, because this is a principality, and all these countries..."
"Okay? And think of what his teaching is almost like the prince. It's a guide on how to conquer the world and in fact..."
"...whoever can kill the elephant can marry my daughter. So a prince decides to do this. He disguises himself as a normal person, and..."
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