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In Reply to: Re: Machiavelli and Modern Times posted by Cassie Piram on January 27, 1999 at 14:20:31:

Great ideas, thoughts, morals, dreams, and such, can not be confined to just a single time. They transend. They are kept alive by their reality, by their honesty, and by their ability to reach inside of any human being and pull out great emotions. They are recognized by everyone as the truth and so they live on long after the autor of the ideal has passed into dust. Machiavelli was a man who saw the world for what it was and recorded what he saw. Not everyone is able to acheive such clarity. Perhaps that is what defines a Rennaissance person, the ability to look beyond your own experienses into those of others and to see the world as it really is, not what we want it to be.

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