I do not mean to be presumptuous or to play a low or vile character desiring to discuss the role and governance of a Prince, but, as those who, in picturing the country, place themselves from low on the plain to view the mountains and the heights, and similarly, those who want to view the lowlands do so from high on the mountain, so it is that to know the nature of a people, one needs to be a Prince, and to know the nature of a Prince, one needs to be of the people.
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Those who have read Machiavelli in depth have positive opinions; those who have not read his works have negative opinions. When he suggests guiding principles for a Prince concerning his land and people, the principles are not anchored in Machiavelli, the man, but in Machiavelli, the scientist. Because those principles are revealed through his science, we should judge him by the science he’s discovered and not by the truths discovered through that science, because too often those truths are not to our liking.
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