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Often appears with: prudent rule · pride, vanity, and humility · praise and blame · human vice · forms of government · duty, conscience, and obligation
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1)
He turns to real principles of rule: people and especially princes are praised or blamed for many traits, and since not all virtues are maintainable, a prudent prince avoids vices that would ruin him.
CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OR BLAMED It remains now to see what ought to be the rules of conduct for a prince towards subject and friends. And as I know that many have written on this point, I expect I shall be considered presumptuous in mentioning it again, especially as in discussing it I shall depart from the methods of other people. But, it being my intention to write a …