The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to fail.’Considered one of the first works of modern philosophy, Machiavelli’s The Prince is an intense study on the nature of power and the course it should take when ruling a country and expresses the author’s strong and unyielding ideals and beliefs on using force rather than law to achieve your aims.Responsible for the widely-used phrase ‘Machiavellian’, with all of its negative connotations, his extreme treatise remains a classic text to this day.
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““The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli
““And there is nothing wastes so rapidly as liberality, for even whilst you exercise it you lose the power to do so.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli