and live now have been and are either republics or principalities." In Machiavelli's, The

Prince, timeless keys to a successful principality are examined. The keys are understanding

human nature, respecting that nature, and reaffirming that successful leadership can exist

in the same fashion yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Machiavelli's perspective of human nature is founded on the principle that people

in general don't want their culture changed by an outside influence. Machiavelli

demonstrates in the book that the nature of people is to defend who they are. When "the

prince" attempts to change their culture in any way the subjects will do any number of

things to crush this attempt or even change the leadership. If a prince uses force to try to

change people this will lead to hostility, because as Machiavellis says, "they remain,

defeated, in their own homes." This underlying fact will lead to a rebellion of some sort.

One way this rebellion can happen is when a powerful foreigner invades the principality.

The now "defeated" people will join this powerful foreigner, in hopes that their culture

the piazza at Cesena, with a block of wood and a bloody knife beside it. The brutality of

The first rung of the ladder to a successful principality is the understanding of

timeless Machiavelli's ideas truly are.

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