| 1 | This applies to not a few revolutionaries and militarists and other apostles of violence. | |
| 2 | Cruel and heartless,they delighted inwar and died in endless struggle. | |
| 3 | Moreover, they hold the military arts in high regard, and they have many regulations for maintaining them. | |
| 4 | It would be armed and expansive. Machiavelli's republic feeds on conflict, on war and conquest. | |
| 5 | Aggression is not an inevitable or unchangeable aspect of man but a product of aggression-promoting conditions within a society. |