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What are the two ways to live? What is the disadvantage of each?

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There are two ways of living, Machiavelli asserts in the following chapter, “The Way Princes Should Keep Their Word”: with laws, and with force. The first is the human method, and the second belongs in theory to the beasts. That said, there are times when the first method does not suffice, in which case a prince needs to rely on force. Therefore, a prince should study the art of both laws and war, the methods of both man and beasts.

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