 | Thomas Merton - 2010 - 350 pages
...reconcile himself to peace, the Prince must learn how not to be too good: A man who wishes to make profession of goodness in everything must necessarily...who are not good. Therefore it is necessary for a Price who wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not... | |
 | Sanders - 1980 - 404 pages
...done for what ought to be done, •will rather learn to bring about his ruin than his preservation. A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness...necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good.10 Machiavelli is here well on the way to the self-congratulatory hardheadedness of which I have... | |
 | John W. Coffey - 1977 - 226 pages
...done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation. A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness...wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the case. re Machiavelli,... | |
 | Thomas Merton - 2010 - 322 pages
...and reconcile himself to peace, the Prince must learn not to be too good: A man who wishes to make profession of goodness in everything must necessarily...wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the case. (The Prince,... | |
 | George Lachmann Mosse, Seymour Drescher, David Warren Sabean, Allan Sharlin - 334 pages
...Basil Blackwell, 1957), p. 33. On the frontispiece, Mosse quoted from Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. 15: "A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness...necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good." 2. George L. Mosse, "Left-Wing Intellectuals in the Weimar Republic," Germans and Jews (New York: Grosset... | |
 | Thomas J. Bernard - 1983 - 260 pages
...also became convinced that statesmen could not afford to operate by conventional rules of morality. A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness...wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the case.4 Thus, Machiavelli... | |
 | Joel Colton - 1987 - 578 pages
...personal integrity and mixed political success, his most fitting epitaph the words of Machiavelli: "A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness...necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good."1 In the age of Hitler and lesser tyrants Blum's integrity shone like a beacon, yet he lacked... | |
 | Robert M. Doran - 1990 - 756 pages
...done for what ought to be done will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation. A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness...wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.*0 This passage... | |
 | James E. Hennessy, Suki Robins - 1991 - 330 pages
...done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation. A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness...wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessities of the case.3 A prince,... | |
 | Randall Kenan - 1992 - 364 pages
...the Light of the Lamb. Sing a song for Mabel. Mabel. Mabel. Mabel. THIS FAR 5 OR , A BODY IN MOTION A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness...wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the case. —Chapter... | |
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A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge... 
