Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

On Machiavellianism

Who decides what is virtue and what is vice?

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Richard L. Johnson
Nov 20, 2022
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A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. - Machiavelli

In Ch. 15 of The Prince he wrote:

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