Read the excerpt below and answer the question. … something which looks like a virtue, if followed, would be his [a leader’s] ruin; whilst something else, which looks like a vice, yet followed brings him peace and prosperity. machiavelli’s advice can best be paraphrased as follow virtue, even if it leads to ruin. beware: vice can often look like virtue. take the action, whether virtuous or evil, that leads to peace and prosperity. make decisions quickly, without taking too much time to think about them.

take the action, whether virtuous or evil, that leads to peace and prosperity

i do not the question is put in the corrorect order

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.