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The Prince — Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince — Niccolo Machiavelli
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Written in 16th-century Florence, The Prince is the original guide to political power. Machiavelli's unflinching analysis of how rulers gain and maintain power remains shockingly relevant today — essential reading for anyone interested in politics, leadership, or history.
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Genre: Philosophy
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But the difficulties occur in a new principality. And firstly, if it be not entirely new, but is, as it were, a member of a state which, taken collectively, may be called composite, the changes arise chiefly from an inherent difficulty which there is in all new principalities; for men change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves, and this hope induces them to take up arms against him who rules: wherein they are deceived, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad to worse. This follows also on another natural and common necessity, which always causes a new prince to burden those who have submitted to him with his soldiery and with infinite other hardships which he must put upon his new acquisition.
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