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is in what the people did to them for saying it.

in what the people did to them for saying it. Anyway, it begins there.

is inevitable, but to show what can be built up out of an inevitable development.

inevitable, but to show what can be built up out of an inevitable development.

is only successful if he is armed. Religion gets people to believe, and arms stabilize it.

Armed prophets are the ones that succeed, such as Moses. Saganova is an example of an unarmed prophet who failed. o Many references to the problem of religion in politics such as 'armed prophets.' Yet, it plays an important role, though not enough according to Machiavelli. Religion can get people to believe but it cannot stabilize that belief, thus the need for arms to ensure stabilization. (machiavelli : Chap vii)

's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

is most true who peers not into the future but who reads and reveals the present.

The true prophet is not he who peers into the future but he who reads and reveals the present.

is one who is twice stoned-first in anger, then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard.

Those who were twice stoned-first in anger, then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard.

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