bookshelfbybub 's review for:

The Prince: Second Edition by Niccolò Machiavelli

4.0

informative reflective slow-paced

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I appreciate this inquiry into the power of a prince for evaluating what is rather than what should be. For this reason, I find Machiavelli’s conclusions to be far more genuine than other philosophy in this vein. 

And many have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen or known to exist in truth; for it is so far from how one lives to how one should live that he who lets go of what is done for what should be done learns his ruin rather than his preservation.

               -Chapter 15, Of those things which men and especially princes are praised or blamed