| Sanders - 1980 - 404 sidor
...which have never been seen or known to exist in reality: for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, •will rather learn to bring about his ruin than his preservation. A man who wishes to make a profession... | |
| Hanna F. Pitkin - 1973 - 400 sidor
...are ignored, the gap may widen into a chasm, until a point is reached where, as Machiavelli put it, there is such a difference between how men live and...to be done learns his destruction rather than his preservation.13 Then the old, inherited maxims no longer work in practice, the old theories no longer... | |
| John W. Coffey - 1977 - 226 sidor
...about the Sermon on the Mount, but who forthrightly declared, How we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation. A man who wishes to make a profession... | |
| John H. Schaar - 1981 - 372 sidor
...Machiavelli's famous opening. Many have fancied for themselves republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in reality. For there...learns his destruction rather than his preservation, because any man who under all conditions insists on making it his business to be good will surely be... | |
| Thomas J. Bernard - 1983 - 260 sidor
...which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation. h Such views were also dangerous... | |
| Francis Anthony Boyle - 1985 - 388 sidor
...matter rather than its imagined one. And many have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for there is such a gap between how one lives and how one should live that he who neglects what is being done for what... | |
| John P. Diggins - 1986 - 430 sidor
...Machiavelli's famous opening: . . . many have fancied themselves republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in reality. For there...learns his destruction rather than his preservation, because any man who under all conditions insists on making it his business to be good will surely be... | |
| George N. Katsiaficas - 1987 - 352 sidor
...which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation . . . Therefore it is necessary... | |
| Niccolò Machiavelli - 1989 - 556 sidor
...fanciful notion. Yet many have fancied for themselves republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in reality. For there...what is done for what ought to be done learns his 1. See chap. 8, n. 5. destruction rather than his preservation,3 because any man who under all conditions... | |
| John William Miller - 1978 - 196 sidor
...capable of anything, my dear." Machiavelli observes, "For how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation." The great Florentine spoke practically,... | |
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