Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion dem , s at least the profession of good faith.
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