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For Machiavelli, orthodox moral requirements are hardly worth exploring—they simply cannot be translated into social practice. —Isaiah Berlin,"Counter-Current," Machiavelli calls himself

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For Machiavelli, orthodox moral requirements are hardly worth exploring—they simply cannot be translated into social practice.

— Isaiah Berlin, "Against the Tide"

Machiavelli claimed to be lecturing the monarch, but in fact he was lecturing to the people. His Treatise on monarchs was a Republican textbook.

- Rousseau, The Social Contract

For Machiavelli, orthodox moral requirements are hardly worth exploring—they simply cannot be translated into social practice. —Isaiah Berlin,"Counter-Current," Machiavelli calls himself

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