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The Prince

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The Prince	comment	Written by Italian statesman NiccolÃ² Machiavelli in 1513, The Prince (Il Principe) is the single most famous political treatise and the first entirely secular work of The Renaissance. At the time it was first published, The Prince was seen as extremely scandalous for its endorsement of ruthlessness and amorality. Nevertheless, it quickly became popular with politicians and remains highly influential in Western politics today. If there's any Manipulative Bastard in anything set after the Renaissance, it's very probable he's taken cues from this book.note Although they aren't quite as likely to actually have an in depth knowledge of the book as much as a pop-culture impression. However, it should noted that many fascists during the 19th and 20th centuries were mostly inspired by this work, as many fascist dictators such as Hitler and Mussolini kept a copy of this work, the latter even wrote a thesis relating to this work.Most people are familiar with Machiavelli as the man who said, "it is better to be feared than loved". Over the years Machiavelli's name has become associated with dishonesty, deceit, and ruthlessness, so much that they even made his name an adjective most often used for unsavoury characters. However, Machiavelli repeats that while it is better for one to inspire fear, one should also try to inspire love, and must also remember not to inspire hatred. A very common mistake people make is to conflate "be pragmatic" with "be an asshole". Everything a leader says and does need not automatically be a duplicitous front. A leader is perfectly free to have ideals, and be kind, generous, and just with their subjects. The main point is that if achieving one's goals means the leader must commit unsavoury acts, then they must do it. Going down in flames with your ideals intact is a fine and noble thing to do — some may say it is a moral obligation — but that is not the point of this book. The Prince should be regarded as a guidebook to maintaining power for the good of the prince and ultimately the state, not how to kick puppies left and right.Also, he wrote this book when Italy was in a very chaotic state: for him, the prince had to rule with an iron fist to ensure order. Finally, one must remember that Machiavelli was attempting to ingratiate himself with the Medici, who had just taken over Florence (and promptly ignored his advice: they chose to be universally loved, and ended up massively in debt for it), and that most of his work was about supporting (smaller) republican regimes with an emphasis on freedom (although the means he recommended for operating and preserving them were rather, well, Machiavellian); more educated political theorists tend to regard him as something of a Deep Cover Agent for what eventually became modern liberal democracy. Though if so, that would ironically be a Machiavellian plan in itself. As later historians noted, Machiavelli wrote the book in vernacular and in plain language which means that it's a book that has had a wider audience than earlier works of political sciences.As of note, 'Prince' (or principe in the original Italian) at the time just meant "ruler", more or less (from Latin princeps = "first one"). It didn't mean "the son of a king". If there was only one person in the state who really mattered, it was called a monarchy. Even a democratically elected president would have still been called a Principe.An English translation, now in the public domain, is available here.Compare The Book of Lord Shang, whose traditional author actually was that big a prick. See also Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli's other book, and Hobbes Was Right. Also compare Kautilya's Arthashastra, which is a much more humane but ancient by many hundreds of years to the Prince.(It's worth noting that the English translation of The Prince came out several years after the English rebuttal book was published. Good news travels fast, it seems.)
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The Prince / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Prince / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Easy to force to join your side. If they are actually competent in military warfare or any other area, then you should force them to join you so that their abilities don't end up in the enemies' hands. It's really important that the prince himself isn't this, or even rumored to be this, or his popularity will fall.
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The Prince / int_15a4103a	type	Jerk Justifications
The Prince / int_15a4103a	comment	Jerk Justifications: Machiavelli justifies the sometimes brutal measures he advocates by claiming that rulers have to be ruthless in order to maintain their power. That being said, however, he states that a ruler should be a pragmatist willing to cross lines if doing so would be in his own interest, rather than a puppy-kicking psycho who commits atrocities because he enjoys it.
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The Prince / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Prince / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: A ruler must learn from the examples of history. Any questions?
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The Prince / int_17b7ab65	type	Universally Beloved Leader
The Prince / int_17b7ab65	comment	Universally Beloved Leader: Machiavelli says that being universally loved would be ideal for a ruler, but it isn't a very realistic goal because of limited resources and human nature. You should earn a reputation for being strict but fair instead of bankrupting yourself in vain by trying to please everybody.
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The Prince / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
The Prince / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: If you want to make a good impression after you've conquered an enemy, pardon them and allow them to swear loyalty to you in exchange for their lives. If that doesn't work, you can always dispose of them anyway. Also if you're able to convince political rivals to join you and become loyal to you then it's a big plus for you. He also says that the supporters of a just-conquered state will be better friends to you than those who supported you from the beginning, since they feel like they need to prove themselves to you to earn your trust.
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The Prince / int_1b06aa41	type	Villains Never Lie
The Prince / int_1b06aa41	comment	Villains Never Lie: Machiavelli advises that a prince should maintain his word as honesty would earn him respect. However, he shouldn't be above breaking promises if necessary. The most pragmatic decision however is to not make any promises at all.
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The Prince / int_1b70ccc6	type	The Cynic
The Prince / int_1b70ccc6	comment	The Cynic: The advice on statecraft is made on the assumption that virtues are easily taken advantage of, people are self-interested, and it's always better for the reliable option than the noble one (hence, better feared than loved).
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The Prince / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
The Prince / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: If you must do this then you should only do this during your first years as a ruler, and only toward your political enemies. If you do this on the civilians, or continue with purges all too often then you'll lose popularity points.
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The Prince / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Prince / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Good publicity, again. And it doesn't hurt to know a bit of history, for when you feel like imitating Alexander the Great.
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The Prince / int_1d1b3c81	type	Team Switzerland
The Prince / int_1d1b3c81	comment	Team Switzerland: Machiavelli discourages this. Choosing one side will make the side you side with, once they have won, indebted to you. Remaining neutral, however, would only serve to alienate both sides who would see you as weak for refusing to partake in their war.
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The Prince / int_21269857	type	Villain Ball Magnet
The Prince / int_21269857	comment	Villain Ball Magnet: "A new prince, of all rulers, finds it impossible to avoid a reputation of cruelty, because of the abundant dangers inherent in a newly won state."
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The Prince / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Prince / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: Machiavelli notes that the Church, and religion in general, only comes to power through the strength of arms. He notes about Girolamo Savonarola, who briefly made Florence a theocracy, that while he was able to rule with piety and religious fervor for a while, he had no army to back him up.
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The Prince / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Prince / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: The Prince belongs to a genre of literature known as the "mirrors for princes," essentially self-help books written by courtiers to provide useful advice to newly-installed rulers (and often also to flatter them so that said courtier would have a better shot at getting an actual assignment to a government post). While these books traditionally emphasized the importance of being a wise, valiant, and virtuous ruler, Machiavelli was one of the first to point out that holding the moral high ground over your subjects is useless if you don't also have actual power to back up your rule. Advocates who feel that the book is a parody of the genre point out, that rather than offering a simple one-stop solution, Machiavelli by discussing how politics work, is actually telling the Prince that he's never going to have a moment's rest, a true Prince/King/Ruler would be an absolute paranoid wreck who is Slave to PR, and always worrying if he's Loved/Feared/Hated. In effect, the advice and picture given in the book is impossible to actually follow.
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The Prince / int_2692393	type	The Women Are Safe with Us
The Prince / int_2692393	comment	The Women Are Safe with Us: Rulers are encouraged to restrain themselves from taking any woman they want so as to build rapport with their subjects.
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The Prince / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Prince / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: The book's advice is that if you have to choose between doing the "right" thing and doing the "smart" thing, choose the intelligent option.
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The Prince / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Prince / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The book famously claims that a ruler is safer in his position feared than loved, if he cannot be both. Being an object of fear, therefore, is a good way of preserving power. However, a ruler must nevertheless ensure that he is not hated, because hatred can overcome fear.
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The Prince / int_2b851bd4	type	The Scrooge
The Prince / int_2b851bd4	comment	The Scrooge: While it's good for the wise prince to be seen as generous, he shouldn't make his name from overwhelming generosity. Instead, he should spend as little money as possible, and not worry too much about being seen as a miser - because if things go to hell, he'll have enough money to set things right again, which would've been impossible if the prince was overwhelmingly generous. You are also encouraged to avoid a lavish lifestyle, especially in times of financial crisis or turmoil, because we all know that being The Caligula might be fun, but it will lead to a sticky end.
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The Prince / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Prince / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: One of these, every once in a while, is instructive for your subjects. During times of peace, when you can afford it, relax your grip a bit, let the realm fall into a little bit of easily-repairable chaos. It reminds the people why they need you in charge.
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The Prince / int_3950c1f0	type	Poe's Law
The Prince / int_3950c1f0	comment	Poe's Law: It's still an unresolved question whether Machivaelli was even being entirely serious. After all, it espouses a very different set of ideals from his regular work and is dedicated to the ruling family who arrested, tortured, and banished him.
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The Prince / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Prince / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Machiavelli advises you to use both this trope and Benevolent Boss. You should be harsh enough to keep your subordinates in order and fear, but you also must be benevolent enough to them that they will be loyal to you. In short, Machiavelli advises you to be a pragmatic boss who's able to master both the whip and the carrot when the situation demands which for him to use and when.
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The Prince / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
The Prince / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The prince is advised to assume this from the start, and govern accordingly. Your subjects are fickle, greedy cowards, who will profess their love and loyalty as long as they have full bellies and peaceful lives. But they will turn on you the second the status quo changes for the worse, and you have to be prepared to deal with that. Yeah, maybe they'll surprise you, and stand by you in times of crisis, but you can't run a country on "maybes". It's a safer bet to make sure that they know that the punishment for disloyalty outweighs any temporary hardships loyalty brings.
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The Prince / int_4276401c	type	Shoot the Messenger
The Prince / int_4276401c	comment	Shoot the Messenger: The term "Machiavellian" is often used to describe dirty or corrupt politics, but Machiavelli wasn't a bad guy. All he did was write a history book identifying which leaders did certain things and stayed in power, and which leaders did other things and lost power.
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The Prince / int_474d096e	type	Better to Kill Than Frighten
The Prince / int_474d096e	comment	Better to Kill Than Frighten: Discussed. Machiavelli recommends killing political enemies rather than trying to intimidate or blackmail them, as that may just give them enough motivation and/or ammunition to use it against you.
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The Prince / int_48218d3d	type	Neutrality Backlash
The Prince / int_48218d3d	comment	Neutrality Backlash: Machiavelli explicitly advises the would-be ruler against taking the neutral position in a conflict between states: you'll only end up as a prize for the winner. Better to be winners together, or even losers together (you'll support each other) than someone's dessert.
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The Prince / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Prince / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: one of the main points of the book.
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The Prince / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
The Prince / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: Just like Sun Tzu once said in his book The Art of War, deception is a very useful tool in both the military and the political game.
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The Prince / int_4e3f6d57	type	What Would X Do?
The Prince / int_4e3f6d57	comment	What Would X Do?: Chapter XIV: To ensure his success, a prince must choose a model that he admires and follow his actions to be like him (but obviously, donâ€™t follow his errors).
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The Prince / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
The Prince / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: Notes the tendency of people to expect better things after overthrowing their old ruler, then finding their new ruler to be not so different after all (or even worse).
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The Prince / int_4fbc0887	type	Beneath the Mask
The Prince / int_4fbc0887	comment	Beneath the Mask: He speaks about social masks in detail in chapter XVIII
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The Prince / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Prince / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: "Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge." (The Prince trans. W. K. Marriott, chp. III) The book does point out that you should only reserve such treatment for people who are actually guilty of something though. Heaping a Fate Worse than Death on someone who wronged you will teach others not to be so foolish. Doing it to an innocent bystander will just foster hatred of your despotism. Cruelty to your enemies is a good way to terrify them, but random acts of cruelty are right out.
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The Prince / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Prince / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Machiavelli advises the reader that during times of peace and prosperity, he dosen't become complacent and that he uses that time to prepare himself and his principality for events of war or catastrophes so that they won't be caught off-guard when they inevitably happens.
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The Prince / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Prince / int_52aa0c4a	comment	You are also encouraged to avoid a lavish lifestyle, especially in times of financial crisis or turmoil, because we all know that being The Caligula might be fun, but it will lead to a sticky end.
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The Prince / int_53034c21	type	Great White Hunter
The Prince / int_53034c21	comment	Great White Hunter: Hunting is an excellent way for the prince to exercise himself in his free time. It also will teach him the ways of nature and basic tactics on how to take down competitors.
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The Prince / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Prince / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: "The prince can always avoid hatred if he abstains from the property of his subjects and citizens and from their women." He also warns against taking away the guns, too.
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The Prince / int_675a56a0	type	Crushing the Populace
The Prince / int_675a56a0	comment	Crushing the Populace: One of the two advices Machiavelli gives about how to deal with a recently conquered, former republics - the other advice being that the conqueror actively settles in on his newly conquered lands - as the native population most likely wont forget their former freedom and will continue to rebel against their new masters. Concerning newly conquered, non-republican kingdoms he gives out a more lenient advice of saving that crushing only to the ruling dynasty; afterward you should immediately replace yourself as the new king of the lands and allow the natives to continue live out their lives as before, with a few changes of policies.
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The Prince / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
The Prince / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Machiavelli makes note that Pope Julius II was incredibly quick-tempered, which was both his greatest asset and his greatest flaw.
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The Prince / int_68a91d1c	type	Honest Advisor
The Prince / int_68a91d1c	comment	Honest Advisor: To be preferred over the Yes-Man for advice. However, they should only give advice when they are solicited to, and be properly respectful of the prince himself. After all, it just wouldn't do for a subject to insult his prince to his face or speak out of turn.
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The Prince / int_6a5aa9d0	type	Author Usurpation
The Prince / int_6a5aa9d0	comment	Author Usurpation: The Prince has forever ensured that "Machiavellian" will always be a synonym for amoral behavior in the pursuit of absolute power. Ironically, his other works are so pro-republican that many believe The Prince to be a Stealth Parody.
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The Prince / int_6a6760fa	type	The Power of Hate
The Prince / int_6a6760fa	comment	The Power of Hate: The book advises the prince that if the prince should rule his kingdom through fear, the prince should avoid this trope, as ruling the kingdom with hatred will give your subjects enough justification of overthrowing the prince.
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The Prince / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
The Prince / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: Machiavelli blamed Italy's dominance by foreign powers on the fact that the Italian states all tended to rely on hired mercenaries in war, which were far less disciplined in that day and age; he devoted an entire chapter to why one should not rely on mercenaries, and put reminders in the other two chapters on warfare. And Discourses is rather critical of them as well. He pointed out that a soldier's purpose is to protect; a mercenary's is to damage at the least risk to themselves, which made them most dangerous to their allies and civilians, and least dangerous to the enemy. In battle they tended to get slaughtered, in the unlikely event they turned up at all. Armies with more direct loyalty to their prince or their state tended to do much better.
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The Prince / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Prince / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Cited as something not to hold onto. Louis XII of France is cited as a prime example of how to not screw with another country effectively, and in Chapter 3 Machiavelli calls out Louis on his idiocy, and shows how his treatment of the lesser powerful states would lead to them pushing the French back out of Italy, and tells us that for all the force used to take down Naples, he would lose it as quickly as he'd gained it. Machiavelli says that had Louis taken a pragmatic approach in Italy, not shared power with the Spanish, and aided those less powerful than he, he may well have held onto Italy for quite some time.
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The Prince / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
The Prince / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: Machiavelli acknowledges that old ideals or rules usually have more followers who are more fierce and loyal to them. It's why it's important for the leader of new ideals or rules to have a greater sense of discipline, or soon all his followers will be dead or turned traitors in less than a year.
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The Prince / int_79cf6c4e	type	Join or Die
The Prince / int_79cf6c4e	comment	Join or Die: An efficent tool to tame and control those of your enemies who are of a lesser threat to you; the more threatening ones you should only use the Die option.
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The Prince / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
The Prince / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: Should be used with caution, because if you as a prince of a smaller principality summons the aid of a much more powerful one in the time of need; especially during times of war, then they can use your debt to them afterward as a pretext to reduce you as their dependent vassal. Therefore, the prince should learn to keep his principality as self-reliant as possible and only ask for the aid of the much bigger nation as a last resort.
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The Prince / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
The Prince / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Subverted. If someone decides to betray their king and country for you, then you should reward them with exactly what they wants in return; whatever it's money, power, influence, etc.
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The Prince / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Prince / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: The reason why someone should be willing to do something cruel. Machaivelli doesn't speak for cruelty for it's own sake or deny that something is a cruel act. He only says that it's sometimes necessary to not be nice to others.
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The Prince / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Prince / int_8543ec22	comment	Reality Subtext: His bit expounding on how to overthrow religious-based states, nominally about the Ottomans, was intended as a how-to guide on overthrowing the Pope.
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The Prince / int_86968c96	type	Above Good and Evil
The Prince / int_86968c96	comment	Above Good and Evil: The common misreading of the message is that "The ends justify the means". In reality, the lesson is that one must be willing to Shoot the Dog if the situation calls upon it as the leader.
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The Prince / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Prince / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Good public relations are good, but not necessary.
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The Prince / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
The Prince / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: Sooner or later, you're going to be in a position where you're going to have to do something awful. That's not a criticism; that's just a reality of politics. Machiavelli offers advice on how to do this awful thing with the least amount of collateral damage.
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The Prince / int_959f08aa	type	Vetinari Job Security
The Prince / int_959f08aa	comment	Vetinari Job Security: Suggested as the best possible position to be in. It's no coincidence that Lord Vetinari, the trope namer, is modelled heavily on a mixture of the theoretical Prince and Machiavelli himself.
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The Prince / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Prince / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: You shouldn't put too much trust in the social elite. There's a chance if they don't like your governing, they'll either rebel against you, try to overthrow you, try to assassinate you, or ally themselves with your enemies. And allowing them to commit corruption sure is gonna awaken the people's wrath, and that is something a wise prince must not allow to happen. If they would commit treason against you then you must depose them immediately. That shouldn't be too difficult if you have the people's support and the army's loyalty, and if you don't have it then executing the traitors will help your popularity rise amongst the average people. If the prince is able to Take a Third Option and create a social and economic society that both the aristocrats and the people are satisfied with, he may not need to use violence (at least internally) to rule the country.
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The Prince / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
The Prince / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Machiavelli warns against being excessively cruel for prolonged periods of time so that the prince doesn't provoke his subjects into following this trope. The most dangerous enemies are the ones who feel like they have nothing left to lose because they've already been wronged so much.
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The Prince / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
The Prince / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Machiavelli explains why:
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The Prince / int_a96a045c	type	Droit du Seigneur
The Prince / int_a96a045c	comment	Droit du Seigneur: Argued against. Machiavelli notes that a ruler's subjects will not put up with their wives and daughters being "used", and trying to do so will cause massive unrest.
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The Prince / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
The Prince / int_aec63727	comment	Pragmatic Hero: What being a prince ultimately should be. Though Machiavelli suggests ruthless things, all of it is to the end of protecting one's people and ensuring their prosperity instead of being a self-centered tyrant. He writes that a leader should avoid cruelty when at all possible; when not possible, just go ahead and get it over with, otherwise the situation will get worse and even nastier measures will become necessary. Essentially, if you have to choose between your reputation as a benevolent ruler and your actual power, pick your power, because only then will you have the ability to actually be a benevolent ruler.
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The Prince / int_afd112fe	type	Hired Guns
The Prince / int_afd112fe	comment	Hired Guns: The prince is advised to avoid these as often as possible, as the ones of the day were usually difficult to control.
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The Prince / int_b0fb2427	type	Bread and Circuses
The Prince / int_b0fb2427	comment	Bread and Circuses: This trope can help a ruler keep the masses on side, but it's not necessarily a requisite.
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The Prince / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Prince / int_b1346878	comment	The book does point out that you should only reserve such treatment for people who are actually guilty of something though. Heaping a Fate Worse than Death on someone who wronged you will teach others not to be so foolish. Doing it to an innocent bystander will just foster hatred of your despotism. Cruelty to your enemies is a good way to terrify them, but random acts of cruelty are right out.
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The Prince / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Prince / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: The prince's morals should not get in the way of governing his state. After all, don't expect that the other nations will be ruled by paragons of virtue.
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The Prince / int_b1fd7687	type	Kingpin in His Gym
The Prince / int_b1fd7687	comment	Kingpin in His Gym: Keeping your body physically fit is just as important as keeping your mind sharp and your army strong. Hunting is Machiavelli's personal recommendation of physical activity, because it not only trains the senses, but you will also gain an understanding of how the terrain around you works which is especially useful when fighting a war on your turf.
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The Prince / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Prince / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Machiavelli mocks the political philosophers that came before him for their refusal to look reality in the eye.
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The Prince / int_b6064061	type	Power of Trust
The Prince / int_b6064061	comment	Power of Trust: Newly conquered people should be left their weapons. They will, after all, need to defend themselves, and while disarming them will slow rebellion, it will not stop it since they will be able to get arms somehow, and the good will generated by this trust is better against rebellion than the delay.
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The Prince / int_b77eb3b2	type	Revenge by Proxy
The Prince / int_b77eb3b2	comment	Revenge by Proxy: To avoid this, when taking over a new country, the prince must kill off the deposed prince's family as well.
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The Prince / int_b8ab7dc4	type	Treacherous Advisor
The Prince / int_b8ab7dc4	comment	Treacherous Advisor: Similar to The Starscream, these guys are something a prince should be careful of. A backstabbing adviser is much more dangerous since they have more influence in the court, and if they grow too ambitious, they will gladly use this influence for their own needs. If a prince finds out that his adviser is much more concerned about himself than about the prince or the state, he should fire him at once.
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The Prince / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Prince / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Subjects and rivals only care about their own self-interests, and a good prince should know how to exploit this trope.
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The Prince / int_bcc9f4f7	type	Realpolitik
The Prince / int_bcc9f4f7	comment	Realpolitik: Trope Codifier. Machiavelli himself affirms in the opening that where most books on politics have chronicled some imagined ideal state and imagined ideal ruler, he wanted to show how politics worked based on his first-hand experience and knowledge showing what people actually do to maintain power, popularity and make things happen. This in some senses made him a prototypical Enlightenment man.
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The Prince / int_be192f18	type	Yes-Man
The Prince / int_be192f18	comment	Yes-Man: Advised against, since they would spend more time flattering the prince in order to improve their status than actually giving good advice.
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The Prince / int_bf414570	type	Cunning Like a Fox
The Prince / int_bf414570	comment	Cunning Like a Fox: Imitiating the lion alone is foolish.
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The Prince / int_c271fe08	type	Machiavelli Was Wrong
The Prince / int_c271fe08	comment	Machiavelli Was Wrong: Ironically, the work that codified the trope was also the one that deconstructed it; the book says that, yes, it is safer to be feared than loved, but the book also goes out of their way to tell that this should only be chosen if it is impossible to be both, and in any event one must also avoid being hated.
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The Prince / int_c2d5b652	type	Playing Both Sides
The Prince / int_c2d5b652	comment	Playing Both Sides: Subverted. It's effective during peace times, when the Prince has some time to weaken his conquered subjects will to fight him and instead strengthen their will to fight each other, but it's a risky tactic during war times, because the weaker faction will likely ally with the enemy.
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The Prince / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Prince / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: The prince should be this, or a Genius Bruiser. "The prince needs to be both a fox to avoid the snares and a lion to scare away the wolves".
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The Prince / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Prince / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Zigzagged; this can be a useful tool to get the weaker elements of society or weaker players to ally with the prince. However, the prince need to make sure that their power is based entirely on his favour and that he keeps them dependent on him so that they won't break off and try to subvert his power and influence. And he shouldn't use this trope to earn the allegiance from those of equal or, worse, greater power since they'll definitely subvert your own power and influence.
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The Prince / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
The Prince / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: invoked Actually, you're supposed to avoid this one. At least, if you're going to Kick the Dog, do it in a way that makes people too afraid to do anything about it.
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The Prince / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Prince / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Machiavelli warns not to trust aristocrats and to avoid lavishness, as it would force the prince to raise taxes in order to support the court. And everyone knows that higher taxes lead to revolutions.
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The Prince / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
The Prince / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: Once you wise up, stop using mercenaries or other nations' armies and create your own army. It's very important that you don't make your soldiers or officers too greedy or too ambitious, and that you don't get too soft on the discipline part. On the other hand, a balance between courage, rewards for their loyalty and A Father to His Men attitude, and hard discipline and harsh punishments if they don't listen to you (i.e. the use of the carrot and the whip), will make them a Badass Army.
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The Prince / int_cb2d889	type	Won the War, Lost the Peace
The Prince / int_cb2d889	comment	Won the War, Lost the Peace: A Prince who has won a war and wants to avoid being perceived as cruel will let the opposition live. (Machiavelli cites historic examples.) This inevitably concludes in later war, disorders, and a lot of people dead. So, the paradox is that Prince who truly wants to win the peace must crush the opposition (but not the general populace) fast even when the war has already been won, so all their subjects cannot see any hope in opposing their new ruler, donâ€™t waste time and effort trying it, and instead truly accept the new peace.
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The Prince / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The Prince / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: The last few chapters of the book blame many of Italy's woes on this trope. He concludes by asking the Medicis to seize Italy and conquer it with Italian armies, thereby averting the problems that had cropped up with using mercenaries. His pleas would eventually be answered... 350 years later by the House of Savoy.
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The Prince / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
The Prince / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: As noted previously, it itself was one to earlier literature on the subject, deconstructing the idea that an ideal prince had to be bound by the laws of morality. Frederick the Great was later inspired to write his own refutation, Anti-Machiavel, to reconstruct the earlier conception by bringing it in line with Enlightenment thought.
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The Prince / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
The Prince / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: "I certainly think it is better to be impetuous than cautious, for fortune is a woman and it is necessary, if you wish to master her, to take her by force."
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The Prince / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Prince / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Machiavelli spends a lot of time talking about how patriotic soldiers with genuine loyalty to the prince and the state are going to be more reliable than mercenaries who only care about payment. The Medicis ignored his advice, continued to rely on mercenaries and utterly failed to unite Italy. About three and a half centuries later, the Wars of Italian Independence finally united all of Italy, in no small part due to the efforts of Italian patriots.
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The Prince / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Prince / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Machiavelli acknowledges Pope Alexander VI as an expert manipulator of the political game, and indeed he was almost unbeatable in this regard.
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The Prince / int_d7345a5d	type	Let No Crisis Go to Waste
The Prince / int_d7345a5d	comment	Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Crises brings opportunities for men who want to become a prince. Use them, it's a great first step in your way to power. With them, you can gather the support of the people for whatever action you plan to do to end the crisis, and then it's hard work, strength, intelligence and determination which determine the results. If you succeed, you'll be seen as a great leader by the people.
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The Prince / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Prince / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: The prince should be ready to use lethal, even outright immoral, force when the situation demands it. Because in the field of politics, one with too much of a merciful heart won't last long on the throne; even less so if he's unarmed.
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The Prince / int_dd92bf66	type	Warrior Prince
The Prince / int_dd92bf66	comment	Warrior Prince: Fighting on the front lines alongside with your troops is a great way to boost positive PR, especially amongst the soldiers, who're the one social group whose loyalty and allegiance is the most important to earn and keep for your guaranteed stay in power.
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The Prince / int_e031b7ef	type	Slave to PR
The Prince / int_e031b7ef	comment	Slave to PR: You should take great interest in public relations and strive not to have bad PR. Subverted in that you should never put public relations before pragmatism.
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The Prince / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Prince / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: By the common pop-cultural idea of the book, you'd think it was a guide on being the biggest monster you could be.
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The Prince / int_e45ce099	type	The Wise Prince
The Prince / int_e45ce099	comment	The Wise Prince: What this book wants you to be, though by wisdom, Machiavelli means Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!.
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The Prince / int_e96fe76d	type	Hobbes Was Right
The Prince / int_e96fe76d	comment	Hobbes Was Right: One of the most familiar examples ever. This book made the name "Niccolo Machiavelli" basically a synonym to "Thomas Hobbes", although in real life, Machiavelli might have also criticized Hobbes' theories if he had read about them. Indeed, during The Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (whose ideas were totally opposed to Hobbes) did a lot to reconstruct Machiavelli as a republican, as opposed to an advocate for a King (like Hobbes).
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The Prince / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
The Prince / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: If you plan to take power through your own guts, skills and will alone, and with minimal to no help from stronger factions, than you might have to fight longer and harder to claim it, but if you do succeed with it, than you'll have it much easier to rule, since your hard-earned efforts will inspire true and sincere loyalty and respect from your followers and subjects. If you'd that power handed to you on a silver plate, you'll find it easier to gain but harder to keep, since that easier way won't inspire any true loyalty or respect from your subjects, and there's a chance that those who gave it to you will take it back if they think you don't do well enough in their taste. This problem might be avoided if you're born from a long established dynasty, but that the end of the day, people respects the fighter or the scrapper the most.
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The Prince / int_eda30d58	type	0% Approval Rating
The Prince / int_eda30d58	comment	0% Approval Rating: Something a prince must avoid at all costs or else the serfs will revolt.
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The Prince / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
The Prince / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: These guys are something a ruler should be careful of, since they're more dangerous than foreign enemies. If you find out that someone is a Starscream, then you should dispose of him in order to teach the other Starscreams a lesson.
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The Prince / int_f48540c7	type	King of Beasts
The Prince / int_f48540c7	comment	King of Beasts: Not the only thing to emulate.
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The Prince / int_f8c079b3	type	With Us or Against Us
The Prince / int_f8c079b3	comment	With Us or Against Us: This is trope, along with Neutrality Backlash, is one of the reasons why the prince should avoid a "neutral" position. In times to conflicts between warring states, the Prince should at least form an alliance with a faction to gain trust from them and even if the prince loses, the prince at least lose together with an ally.
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The Prince / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Prince / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: This sure is gonna happen if you act like a monster for too long. In keeping with the theme of being pragmatic, Machiavelli stresses how far one should go when it comes to fear:
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The Prince / int_fc451ba4	type	Follow the Leader
The Prince / int_fc451ba4	comment	Follow the Leader: invoked Machiavelli advises the reader to read the histories of great leaders, such as Cyrus the Great or Hiero II of Syracuse, and learn the ways they used to gain and retain power, as well learn the mistakes they might have made so that the reader won't makes them as well.
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