“From this we learn that a wise prince sees to it that never, in order to attack someone, does he become the ally of a prince more powerful than himself, except when necessity forces him, as I said above. If you win, you are the powerful king’s prisoner, and wise princes avoid as much as they can being in other men’s power.” Niccolò Machiavelli Niccolò Machiavelli’s name gives us the commonly used word “Machiavellian”, which indicates a dangerous sort of unscrupulous cunni...
Close