Ends means ethics of machiavelli biography

This article is about the famous quote that is claimed to have been said by Niccolo Machiavelli that seemingly defends his particular view of consequentialism.

A view he fleshes out in his legendary political commentary book The Prince. Before we get into the breakdown, we’ll go ahead and let you know that Albert Einstein did not in fact make this quote (nor is it the definition of insanity).

We’ll work through it below.

Citation 1:

Business Insider

Supplementary: Mashable

Citation 2:

Primary: The Epistles of Ovid Translated Into English Prose (p.

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Machiavelli didn’t say it? Well, not first anyway. 

Though Machiavelli may not have said it, his actual text and words were fairly close (and a good abbreviation) of what he actually said. However, we’ll get to that shortly, for now, let’s get to who actually said it. 

In his all too classic text Heroides II, the Roman poet whom readers may remember from assigned read