Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Machiavelli promoted a realistic approach to governance. It didn’t always involve being nice. More than anything, though, he claimed rulers needed to avoid this one mistake — it was absolutely fatal and ruined nations…

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