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fully read and considered by you, you will learn my extreme desire that you should attain that greatness which fortune and your other attributes promise.
Remember, Machiavelli is writing this because he has been fired from his position within the current government, and he is trying to get that position back by writing this text to appease the Prince of Italy.
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Those who draw pictures place themselves below in the plain to understand the nature of the mountains and other high places, and in order to understand the plains place themselves upon high mountains. Similarly, to understand the nature of the people one needs to be a prince, and to understand princes one needs to be of the people
What do you think he means by this?
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