Sublime

This theory, which was nearly unknown to the republics of antiquity—which was introduced into the world almost by accident, like so many other great truths—and misunderstood by several modern nations, is at length become an axiom in the political science of the present age.

connecting the notion of rights with that of personal interest, which is the only immutable point in the human heart, what means will you have of governing the world except by fear? When I am told that, since the laws are weak and the populace is wild, since passions are excited and the authority of virtue is paralyzed, no measures must be taken to

Thus, on the one hand the State is exposed to the perils of a revolution, on the other to perpetual mutability; the former system threatens the very existence of the Government, the latter is an obstacle to all steady and consistent policy.

a realidade apontava modos de agir muito distintos das belas teorias da ética, da moral e dos bons costumes com que outros filósofos tratavam do tema.

No need to ask if the cardinal has any particular princess in mind. He has not one but two or three. He never lives in a single reality, but in a shifting shadow-mesh of diplomatic possibilities. While he is doing his best to keep the king married to Queen Katherine and her Spanish-Imperial family, by begging Henry to forget his scruples, he will a

He could watch the Governor twist arms, offer incentives and drop, one by one, with matchless guile, the veils from in front of threats.

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Deve o príncipe, não obstante, fazer-se temer de forma que, se não conquistar o amor, fuja ao ódio, mesmo porque podem muito bem coexistir o ser temido e o não ser odiado: