What is the objective(without using explaining, convincing, or teaching)?

“Every time I see a sunset like this, I think of that weekend in Buffalo. Remember? The way the light reflected off the snow. It was the first time I understood the phrase “purple mountains majesty.” It was so still and quiet. You were asleep on the couch, breathing softly, the snow falling gently on the windows. It was that type of silence that is sooo loud. I looked at you and I knew that that moment, that instant, was as good as it would ever get. It would never be more perfect that right then. I knew I could never love you more and I knew that you would never be more content. So I left. I still don’t know if I did the right thing. I just know that it’s easier to kill something beautiful, than to watch it slowly lose its life.”

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion