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How much do you know about Niccolò Machiavelli?What phrase, often summarized in textbooks, expresses a key idea in The Prince about the political calculus of affection and fear?
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Moral virtue is always sufficient to govern
Politics must avoid force in any circumstance
The State must disappear completely
It is better to be feared than loved, otherwise you can be both.Correct
Machiavelli proposes that, if both cannot be achieved, fear (without hate) is politically “safer” than love.