#the prince

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go to my study; and on the threshold I take off my everyday clothes, which are covered with mud and mire, and I put on regal and curial robes; and dressed in a more appropriate manner I enter into the ancient courts of ancient men and am welcomed by them kindly […]. and there I am not ashamed to speak to them, to ask them the reasons for their actions; and they, in their humanity, answer me; and for four hours I feel no boredom, I dismiss every affliction, I no longer fear poverty nor do I tremble at the though of death: I become completely part of them.”

— Letter from Niccolò Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori, 1513

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when I was younger my dad used to play this game all the time and loved watching him play it, also the king of cosmos used to scare me and I’d get nightmares over it lmao

Books You Should Read

Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz 

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene 

The Art of War by Sun Tzu 

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavell

The Five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto 

Podcasts You Should Listen To  

Revolution Ramblings by Amber Khan 

Highest Self Podcast by Sahara Rose 

Mile Higher Podcast by Kendall Rae and Josh Thomas 

Getting Curious by Johnathan Van Ness 

“The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli, from “The Prince", originally published c. 1532.

“Nothing makes a prince so much esteemed as great enterprises and setting a fine example. We have in our time Ferdinand of Aragon, the present King of Spain. He can almost be called a new prince, because he has risen, by fame and glory, from being an insignificant king to be the foremost king in Christendom; and if you will consider his deeds you will find them all great and some of them extraordinary. In the beginning of his reign he attacked Granada, and this enterprise was the foundation of his dominions. He did this quietly at first and without any fear of hindrance, for he held the minds of the barons of Castile occupied in thinking of the war and not anticipating any innovations; thus they did not perceive that by these means he was acquiring power and authority over them. He was able with the money of the Church and of the people to sustain his armies, and by that long war to lay the foundation for the military skill which has since distinguished him. Further, always using religion as a plea, so as to undertake greater schemes, he devoted himself with pious cruelty to driving out and clearing his kingdom of the Moors; nor could there be a more admirable example, nor one more rare. Under this same cloak he assailed Africa, he came down on Italy, he has finally attacked France; and thus his achievements and designs have always been great, and have kept the minds of his people in suspense and admiration and occupied with the issue of them. And his actions have arisen in such a way, one out of the other, that men have never been given time to work steadily against him.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli, from “The Prince", originally published c. 1532.

“It is much safer to be feared than loved because love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli, from “The Prince", originally published c. 1532.