Mathematics

Kenneth Merritt

4 December, 22:57

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What is the central idea in this

passage?

Which phrase best supports this central

idea?

(1) But when cities or countries are accustomed to live

under a prince, and his family is exterminated, they

being on the one hand accustomed to obey and on the

other hand not having the old prince, cannot agree in

making one from amongst themselves, and they do not

know how to govern themselves. (2) For this reason they

are very slow to take up arms, and a prince can gain them

to himself and secure them much more easily. (3) But in

republics there is more vitality, greater hatred, and more!

desire for vengeance, which will never permit them to

allow the memory of their former liberty to rest; so that

the safest way is to destroy them or to reside there.

-The Prince,

Niccolò Machiavelli

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