Your face is my radiance
Your mental state my happiness
Your life is my journey
Your love my destination
Your pleasure is my goal
Your beatitude my purpose
Your affection is remote
Your heart hitherto elsewhere
Your faith is not within me
Your hope not for me
Your skill to me unequaled
Your health to me necessity
My self to you is nothing
My love worthless
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We've been reading about the southern Renaissance in the 1300s on in Europe recently in my world history class. It spurred some thinking and internal conflict for me.
My book tells me that Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in his book [i]The Prince[/i] that morality and politics should be separated. I'm very torn between both sides of this discussion. Theoretically, if politicians could successfully and completely do this, there would be a few positive and negative effects.
Positive:
-Personal bias wouldn't be a problem.
-Machiavelli believed that the state would exist more sturdily.
Negative:
-Immoral decisions would almost certainly be made.