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For Machiavelli a man who can be killed on somebody's word is a slave, and a man protected by a system — however unfair that system is — is free.
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- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
If there is a system, then you have liberty. That system may be unfair. It may be biased. It may be, in Machiavelli's case, the very system that tortured and exiled him.
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Watch from 0:54:07 plays here↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com
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