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Maquiavel emphasizes the importance of if keeping far from the adulators that are excellent in pleasing and with this to delude the prince. ‘ ‘ I do not want to leave to deal with an important point, of an error of which the princes alone with much difficulty if defend, if are not of extreme prudence or if they do not make good choice. I mention the adulators to it, of which the cuts are repeats, given that the men if comprised in such a way in its proper things and in such way if they delude, that with difficulty if they defend of this plague … ‘ ‘. But free, and still in the same I capitulate Maquiavel says that a cautious prince must search advice of wise men, and same being wise these they must understand that he has total freedom to say the truth. It does not advance to ask for an advice and to indicate the way of the words that if wants to hear, if this proceeds the enterprising one soon accumulates adulators to its reader.
But if he searches the true opinion must search far from that they want to please. Maquiavel informs in them that only to the scholar’s total freedom must be given to think truly, and who proceeds from another way is soon white of adulators or change of opinion with much easiness. ‘ ‘ Therefore, a cautious prince must proceed (…) choosing in its State wise men and they only must give the freedom of saying to it truth to it of what it asks and nothing more. She must consult them on all the subjects and hear its opinions; (…) Who proceeds for another form, or is precipitated by the adulators, or dumb frequent of opinion for the variety of them to seem …