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them to bring laws, to be law bringers,
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lawgivers, shapers of institutions
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and also reformers of opinions that govern our lives.
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Machiavelli's armed prophet is more than just a gangster,
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like Orson Welles in that part.
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He is a teacher and a kind of educator as well.
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You might even think in your class, in your sections,
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how or in what ways
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does Machiavelli's armed prophet differ in important ways
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both from Plato's philosopher king,
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as well as Aristotle's notion of the megalopsychos
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as the sort of magnanimous statesman.