Military preparations and experiences are very important to maintain a prince's power. ... Furthermore, a prince needs to learn from others' victories and defeats. ... Machiavelli points out "...one sees from the experience of our times that the princes who have accomplished great deeds are those who have little for keeping their promises and who have known how to manipulate the minds of men by shrewdness; and in the end they have surpassed those who laid their foundation upon honesty... A prince, according to Machiavelli, has to be both lion and fox. ... It is true that keeping prom...

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Machiavelli is most famously known for writing "The Prince," which was an advice book showing princes how they should govern their lands and people. ... The key difference between "The Prince," and other advice books for princes at the time was that Machiavelli "divorced the process from the Christian virtues" (Woodcock, 2010). ... This has to be understood: a prince, and especially a new prince, cannot possibly exercise all those virtues for which men are called "good" (What Makes a Great Leader, 2000). ... With that in mind, he said, "How praiseworthy it is for a prince to keep ...

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Thus, this statement alone is not congruent with Machiavelli's idealistic values of a prince. ... In recounting the essay, the Prince first has a duty to become a master of war. ... A Prince must balance his fruitfulness by taking little from his people while giving little to his people. ... Although similar in stature, the Prince and totalitarian are two different men with completely different agendas. ... These evident cues are the basis that The Prince and the totalitarian cannot be the same person....

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He had the qualities of a prince, which is something that he wrote about in one of his many works, entitled The Prince. ... Machiavelli believed that a prince should be well versed in war. ... Another quality that Machiavelli refers to in The Prince is generosity. ... He could not afford the best teachers for Machiavelli, so they did what they could with the little money that they had. ... (Hale xi) Machiavelli truly had the qualities of a prince. ...

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Niccolo Machiavelli, writer of The Prince, categorizes a prince through their capability to bend and change the laws to his advantage, their ability to instill fear through cruelty treatment towards their people, and their aptitude for maintaining the state. ... On page 45 of "The Prince," Machiavelli also claims that "a prince must not worry about the reproach of cruelty " and Vladimir has certainly taken this advice to heart. ... According to Niccolo Machiavelli, maintaining the state is the key to being a great prince, and thus must be the main priority of the prince because without maintai...

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Even, "some scribes had little understanding of what they were writing" (Grendier 431). ... Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his book The Prince, which showed rulers with strong nations by doing what worked best rather then by being good and morally correct. ... His ideas called for a ruler with wisdom and spiritual elements as well, to be the perfect Christian Prince. This Christian Prince would also have to condemn all type of warfare. ... Since there were more patrons of art, "the church was no longer the only patron of art; suddenly princes like Lorenzo de Medici were also buying art works-(Ro...

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