It requires, for Machiavelli, the founding of regimes requires that kind of cold and cruel calculation.

对马奇亚维利而言，那需要政体的创建,需要那种冷酷与残忍的算计。

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Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

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