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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the second appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. The first kind is excellent, the second good, and third kind useless". (p. 74)

Cesare Borgia is Machiavelli’s model. Chapter 7 illustrates the kind or virtue Cesare represented and that Machiavelli recommends. Borgia appoints a cruel duke as minister to restore order in Romagna and after he does his job he h
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