Yet, it would seem to me there is more to Machiavelli than the term "realism" connotes, although that is certainly important.

虽然，在我看来,马奇亚维利,远高于，“现实主义“这词的意味，但那的确是个重要的层面。

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Now, you don't have to buy that and individuals undoubtedly found the strain too much from time to time, but what's interesting, is rather the ideal, the claim, the theory.

你不必非得接受这些理论,况且现代社会常充斥着个人主义倾向,但是那些理想,主张和理论却更意味深长

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