Which of these renaissance ideas does this passage support?
and you are to understand that a prince, and most of all a new prince, cannot observe all those rules of conduct in respect whereof men are accounted good, being often forced, in order to preserve his princedom, to act in opposition to good faith, charity, humanity, and religion. he must therefore keep his mind ready to shift as the winds and tides of fortune turn, and, as i have already said, he ought not to quit good courses if he can it, but should know how to follow evil courses if he must.
—niccolò machiavelli
a. mannerism
b. realism
c. humanism
d. secularism