Read the excerpt below and answer the question. he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation; for a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil. what is machiavelli’s advice to a leader who is confronted with doing the virtuous thing or the thing that best assures survival? to choose the course that will ensure survival to choose to do what is best for the people to choose the virtuous course to choose destruction rather than violate a moral code