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The moral Machiavelli draws from the Borgias is that we should imitate them: they fell to fortune, not to their choices.
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- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
They fell because half of what happens in the world is never in our control. And you can do everything right and it's out of your control, but we have to evaluate what would have happened and therefore we should imitate them, because everything they did was right.
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Watch from 0:14:54 plays here↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com
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