Sublime

Deve o príncipe, não obstante, fazer-se temer de forma que, se não conquistar o amor, fuja ao ódio, mesmo porque podem muito bem coexistir o ser temido e o não ser odiado:

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Lo único seguro es que Estados Unidos seguirá decidiendo todo por nosotros. Pero tal vez la alternativa sería peor. Quiero decir, que Moscú en vez de Washington organizara nuestra vida. Cuando nos dejan libres, lo hacemos todavía peor. Lo menos malo parecería ser que sigamos siendo esclavos.

Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.

One of the epitaphs on Colleoni, who died in 1475 after being Venetian captain general for twenty years, suggested that ‘he who serves a republic serves no one’. This was a common reference to the vacillating quality of leadership in the Italian republics, and it has been suggested that condottieri preferred to serve under princes where they knew w

Everything must appear civilized, decent, democratic, and fair. But if we play by those rules too strictly, if we take them too literally, we are crushed by those around us who are not so foolish.

In an ironically Machiavellian tone, Aristotle explains what a tyrant must do to retain power. He must prevent the rise of any person of exceptional merit, by execution or assassination if necessary. He must prohibit common meals, clubs, and any education likely to produce hostile sentiment. There must be no literary assemblies or discussions. He m

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