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“And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to
desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or
not blamed; but when they cannot and wish to do it anyway, here lie the error
and the blame”
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Machiavelli
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“I conclude, thus, that without its own arms no
principality is secure; indeed it is wholly obliged to fortune since it does
not have virtue to defend itself in adversity”
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Machiavelli
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“But when a
prince who founds on the people knows how to command and is a man full of
heart, does not get frightened in adversity, does not fail to make other
preparations, and with his spirit and his orders keeps the generality of the
people inspired, he will never find himself deceived by them and he will see he
has laid his foundations well”
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Machiavelli
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“And many have imagined republics and principalities
that have never been seen or known to exist in truth . . .”
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“I conclude, then . . . that since men love at their
convenience and fear at the convenience of the prince, a wise prince should
found himself on what is his, not on what is someone else’s; he should only
contrive to avoid hatred, as was said.”
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Machiavelli
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“It happens similarly with fortune, which demonstrates
her power where virtue has not been put in order to resist her . . .”
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Machiavelli
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“ . . . and which is worst of all, continual fear and
danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish
and short”
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Hobbes
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“we must consider what state all men are naturally in,
and that it is a state of perfect freedom
. . . [and a] state also equality.”
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Locke
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Locke
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“Find out something that hath the use and value of
money amongst his neighbors, you shall see the same man will begin presently to
enlarge his possessions”
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Locke
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“. . . every man has a property in his own
person. This nobody has any right to but
himself. The labour of his body and the
work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.”
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Locke
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“If man in the state of nature be so free . . . why
will he part with his freedom? . . . he seeks out and is willing to join in
society with others who are already united, or have a mind to unite for the
mutual preservation of their lives, liberties, and estates, which I call by the
general name, property”
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Locke
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“How will man manage to see himself as nature formed
him, through all the changes that the sequence of time and things must have
produced in his original constitution . . .”
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Rousseau
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“To indicate in the progress of things the moment
when, right taking the place of violence, nature was subjected to law; to
explain by what sequence of marvels the strong could resolve to serve the weak,
and the people to buy imaginary repose at the price of real felicity”
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Rousseau
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“ . . . we seek to know only because we desire to have
pleasure; and it is impossible to conceive why one who had neither desires nor
fears would go to the trouble of reasoning.
The passions in turn derive their origin from our needs, and their
progress from our knowledge”
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Rousseau
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