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The Prince
by Nicolo Machiavelli
CHAPTER XV
Concerning Things For Which Men, And Especially Princes, Are Praised Or Blamed
"it appears to me more appropriate to follow up the real truth of a matter than the imagination of it; for many have pictured republics and principalities which in fact have never been known or seen, because how one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation; for a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil."