... phrase, he hardly finds it to be a practical asset of a society worth striving for. Readers of Machiavelli's work have found that unlike other writers of republican concepts, he is very careful to only mention justice in a sparingly manner. These deliberate omissions have come to be a defining staple in the works of Machiavelli ... in Ancient Greece, early students of Socrates accepted actions that were to the benefit of friends and detriment of enemies as the standard definition of justice (Plato I.332b). Though in practice Machiavelli deviates away from this idea, it is not to say that...

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