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Machiavelli's Ruminations On Humanity
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Cynicism
In Niccolo Machiavelli’s famous treatise, The Prince, Machiavelli blatantly boasts his cynicism on the nature of human kind. Machiavelli states simply his distaste for men and his mistrust of their motivations. While his ruminations about the leaders he has observed demonstrates instability in the political world, his thoughts on the nature of men are even more revealing. Machiavelli lived in an unstable and often dangerous world. During a short period during the early 1500’s Machiavelli was arrested, imprisoned and tortured for his beliefs. (Price, 60) Throughout The Prince Machiavelli litters the pages with cynicism but there are five quotes which stand out and paint an ugly picture of Niccolo Machiavelli’s feelings of the p
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