The three Renaissance humanists, Niccolo Machiavelli, Baldassare
             > Castiglione and Leon Battista Alberti, all believed that you should
             > hard to become the best individual you could be. The main difference
             > between them was how one should go about meeting this goal.
             > Alberti believes the individual should live his life with the
             > moral standards. He thought you should never compromise this. It was
             > right to become wealthy if you accomplished this by being a good
             > This was learned behavior not inherited. A child would have to be
             > to behave this way while they were young. He also believed you should
             > always be trying to better yourself.
             > Castiglione thought that to achieve the ideal individual you would
             > to have good manners. Unlike Alberti, he thought morals were not as
             > important, as long as you maintained a good reputation. Castiglione
             > his individual to be well rounded. They should also be well spoken
             > with being athletic. And no matter what you should always be a
             > Machiavelli, in contrast to Alberti and Castiglione, did not think
             > needed manners or morals. He had the most corrupt ideas. He thought
             > in order to be successful you would have to be feared. He believed a
             > guy" would be taken advantage of. He believed you should never be
             > to use the power you have over people to get what you want.
             > All three writers had similar goals for their ideal person. They
             > from one extreme to the other, Alberti's high moral beliefs to
             > Machiavelli's ruthlessness, Castiglione's beliefs wound up somewhere
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