This can only be accomplished though the acquisition and preservation of power. ... Machiavelli is not talking about the private sphere, "it cannot be called virtue to kill one's fellow-citizens, to betray one's friends, to be treacherous, merciless and irreligious; power may be gained by acting such ways, but not glory" he is instead, talking about what a prince must do in order to acquire and preserve political power over people that he believes to be "ungrateful, fickle, feigners and dissemblers, avoiders of danger, eager for gain" . ... The prince must be able to become wha...

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