Maybe they are exaggerations and I think to some degree they are but it's revealing that both of these very serious readers of Machiavelli took him to be an apostle of freedom.

也许他们过于夸张了，而且我认为,某种程度上他们确实是，但具有启迪意义的是,这两个严肃的马基雅维利的读者,都把他看作自由的传道者。

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