That passage is often taken to be, the beginning of chapter 15, the essence of Machiavelli and realism, a kind of Realpolitik, as it were.

第，15，章开头的这一段落，常被解读为，马奇亚维利与现实主义的精髓，一种现实政治，其实它就是。

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