The document provides information on several important figures and works from the Renaissance period in Italy. It includes brief sections on the artist Giotto di Bondone and his work in the Arena Chapel, Dante Alighieri's epic poem Inferno, Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, the early Renaissance painter Masaccio and his work Holy Trinity. It also features several quotes from the political philosopher Niccol嘆 Machiavelli and brief mentions of the sculptors Donatello, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci's famous fresco of The Last Supper.
6. Machiavelli
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few
experience what you really are.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so
severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
it is much safer to be feared than loved because
...love is preserved by the link of obligation which,
owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves
you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the
fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must
therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to
frighten wolves.
Men in general judge more by the sense of sight
than by the sense of touch, because everyone can
see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what
you seem to be, few know what you really are; and
those few do not dare take a stand against the
general opinion.
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