诚实是最好的策略。—伊索，古希腊寓言作家。

Honesty is the best policy. -aesop, ancient Greek fabulist.

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在穿越一片人迹罕至的森林时，一位寓言作家与财神不期而遇。

A Writer of Fables was passing through a lonely forest when he met a Fortune.

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没有一条通往荣誉的道路是铺满鲜花的。—拉封丹，法国寓言作家。

No road of flowers leads to glory. -la Fontaine, French fabulist.

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The idea then that Machiavelli is doing no more than saying openly and overtly what ancient writers had wrapped in parable and enigma and myth says something about Machiavelli's new political science.

马基雅维利只不过是,公然说出了古代作家们,以寓言，谜以及神话的形式包裹的内容,这种看法一定程度上阐明了马基雅维利的。

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