Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher also a writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. Born in May 3rd 1469, Florence in Italy. He was most famous for his short political subjects, The Prince, has written in 1513. Machiavelli’s purpose of writing The Prince, for practical reasons, Il Principe was written to Lorenzo Di Medici who had recently risen to become ruler of Florence with the help of his cousin who was currently pope. This abolished the pre-existing Republic in which Machiavelli held a very high level "cabinet position". As a result of this association, Machiavelli was forced out of his position and moved into a farmhouse outside of the city limits. The prince is written in order to curry favor with Lorenzo by attempting to write a handbook for rulers. Although he had written extensively in the discourses about the superior nature of republics, the Prince only talks about absolute monarchs and their consolidation and maintaining of power.
"Before all else, be armed." I think this quote is most relevant to leadership today. For example, most people needs to be armed like armor or weapons to protect themselves from any danger. Today through all these years, developing huge group of militias to be fully armed to protect themselves and for their country.
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil." is good and bad for Pizarro. For example,He seems to have a lot of hatred in his mind, doing good deeds for his men and his country, and the sense of evil is inside him. He fought and conquered the Incas which gained him good and evil deeds at the same time.
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." is the most useful for Incas. Having men around him is like you gain a lot of support from your army. Train them, gain more men, and have the ability to control them as a leader and raise their morality.
http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&orderby=&Author_First_Name=Niccolo&Author_Last_Name=Machiavelli&startlist=45
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
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"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil." is good and bad for Pizarro. For example,He seems to have a lot of hatred in his mind, doing good deeds for his men and his country, and the sense of evil is inside him. He fought and conquered the Incas which gained him good and evil deeds at the same time.
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." is the most useful for Incas. Having men around him is like you gain a lot of support from your army. Train them, gain more men, and have the ability to control them as a leader and raise their morality.
http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action=search&orderby=&Author_First_Name=Niccolo&Author_Last_Name=Machiavelli&startlist=45
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
http://paradigm-shift-21st-century.nl/plaatjes/good-and-evil.gif
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