The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Alba, and Ostia, did not destroy them, but gave them their own laws and left them free, and they did not hold them without difficulty.
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"Men are always averse to new things, and it is very hard to persuade them to change."
"If a prince wants to keep his state, he must learn how to be not good, and to use or not use this according to the necessity."
"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are."
"Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number of men who are not good."
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
Florentine diplomat and political theorist whose The Prince (written 1513) became the founding text of political realism and gave us the adjective 'Machiavellian.' Closely associated with Francesco Guicciardini (fellow Florentine political analyst and historian). For an intellectual contrast, see Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch humanist and The Education of a Christian Prince author (1516) — Erasmus's princely-instruction manual was published three years after Machiavelli's, for the same European audience, and is the explicit Christian-virtue alternative to Machiavellian power-realism. The cleanest 'realism vs idealism' founding pairing in modern political theory.
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