IL
PRINCIPE
1513
a dismissed official writes
a handbook on keeping power
A
manual
for
holding
power
fortuna — the flood
virtù — the dykes
skill channels luck; it never abolishes it
Virtù
against
fortuna
love: depends on them
fear: depends on you
yet never be hated: keep hands off their property
Feared,
yet
not
hated
what all see
what few touch
a prince need not have every virtue — he must seem to
Seem
virtuous
Machiavelli's
The
Prince
in
four
ideas