"We don't want to be rebels and betray our families, but we do want to leave home and do interesting and challenging things that maybe our families don't understand because they are still stuck in the old world a little bit.'" In the novel,Gabi faces another dilemma.

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In any case, whatever one makes of those examples, Machiavelli seems to be challenging important aspects of the classical conceptions that we've been talking about up to this point.

不管人们如何理解这些例子，马基雅维利似乎正在挑战,我们至此一直在讨论着的古典概念的,重要方面。

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