A lot of people get complacent during normal times and they assume that normal times will go on forever.

风平浪静时人们容易变的自满,他们认为这太平盛世会持续到永久

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But Machiavelli does not deny that in ordinary terms, in what we might call times of normal politics, the ordinary rules of justice prevail.

但马奇亚维利并未否认,太平时期，在我们会称之为常态政治的时期，寻常的正义规范才是准则。

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