In fact, the layers of hypocrisy underlying its conduct would make even Machiavelli blush.
As Machiavelli advised, the prince must imitate the fox as well as the lion.
This problem was solved when I discovered the Machiavelli egg from Le Marche is imported to London.
The program was fed a set of 89 texts written by nine Italians, including Dante, Machiavelli and Pirandello.
Machiavelli should have advised not the chap at the top, but his underlings.
Also inside this church are the tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli.
The Goldstone case study shows us that as Machiavelli taught, it is just as good if not better to be feared.
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Misunderstood or not, Machiavelli has been an endless resource for English dramatists.
The candid advice that Quintus gives would make Machiavelli blush, but it rings as true today as it did 2, 000 years ago.
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If a leader has to choose between being feared or being loved, Machiavelli insisted that the leader should always go with fear.
It is with Niccolo Machiavelli that your literary tour of Tuscany concludes.
The appointment is so surprising that everyone's inner Machiavelli is working overtime.
The other is a conviction, shared with the ancient Greeks and Machiavelli, that good citizens matter more to free societies than good institutions.
Calling the billionaire a true student of Machiavelli, he said Icahn knows what he needs to do to get the results he wants.
In fact, most businessmen today, used to worrying about aligning hearts and minds, would probably find Machiavelli not only too dry but too cynical.
In "The Prince, " a treatise on the art of politics, the 16th century Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli insisted that compassion got in the way of eminence.
In fact, Machiavelli said it is better to be loved than feared, but if a prince cannot be effective and loved he should consider being effective and feared.
And that's no mean feat in the city of Guelphs and Ghibellines, Niccolo Machiavelli and Lorenzo de' Medici, a place where the present is often weighed against a glorious and bloody past.
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The goal of modern liberalism was the rational state, a state that completed the long-standing attempt at the rational control of nature and human life that began with Machiavelli and culminated with Hegel.
The hints about a Saudi peace initiative ( there is, at this writing, no actual proposal, only hype, speculation and undeserved plaudits ) have had the effect of giving its Prince an overnight diplomatic makeover worthy of Machiavelli.
' - Iago claims no influences, giving the impression that he has thought up his actions all by himself, and certainly, given the messy execution he is to undergo after the end of the play, he has failed to follow Machiavelli's advice to keep power at others' expense.
In fact, Monday's speech felt as if after four frustrating years of trying to appease his opponents, Barack Obama had finally met Machiavelli one night in the Lincoln Bedroom and learned that when faced with two equally powerful opposing forces, a president must choose, or both will attack him.
From there we can see dozens of rectangular slabs set into the pavement, marking the burial places of centuries of Florentine families, and along the walls, funerary monuments to some of the greatest names in Italian history, including Dante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo and Rossini, which make Santa Croce the Italian equivalent of Paris's Pantheon or London's Westminster Abbey, a shrine to the so-called lay saints of a modern nation-state.
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