大自然将人类放在两个君主的统治之下：痛苦与快乐。

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters: pain and pleasure.

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但是，如果有臣民胆敢奋起反抗君主的统治与超越其所立之法，君主可以直接对冒犯者的生命行使权利：轻则刑罚，重则处死。

But if someone dared to rise up against him and transgress his laws, then he could exercise a direct power over the offender's life: as punishment, the latter would be put to death.

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君主统治的权力受到了新法律的制约。

The power of the monarchy was circumscribed by the new law.

《牛津词典》

That's Spinoza on Machiavelli, because "he was favorable to liberty" and that the book, he says, is kind of a satire on princely rule.

那就是斯宾诺莎对马基雅维利的理解，因为,他推崇自由，而关于《君主论》，他说道，某种程度上是对君主统治的讽刺。

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So, they make their personal or dynastic rule absolute based on loyalty to them as individuals and not to the state as some sort of abstraction.

所以,君主将个人或者王朝的绝对统治,建立在［民众］对其统治家族的忠诚,而非国家这样的抽象概念上

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Strong enough to interfere with the ambitions of emperors and kings, it never was able to impose its own domination, though some of the Popes surely tried.

也无法与君主帝王的,雄心壮志相抗衡,宗教是无法统治一个国家的,一些教皇的努力也以失败告终

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