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Spectacular Stop-Motion Animation: My Strange Grandfather

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)2/24/2013 6:35:50 am PST

re: #215 Dark_Falcon

I would hear more. May I ask you to elaborate?

Simply put, among other things, he advises that a prince live in the city he governs, arm the citizens, and he advises harshness over liberality to the extent that that armed citizenry would rebel. The successful ‘princes’ of the time tended to be the bread-and-circuses type who were very liberal with their citizens and didn’t put many restrictions on civil liberties (by the standards of the time) and Machiavelli advises the opposite. He also advises being harsh and cruel to your own military men, which would heighten the chances that the military would join in the revolt.