" This book encourages risk-taking by saying that "fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to beat her."
This book notes that "men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their inheritance." This book encourages risk-taking by saying that "fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to beat her." The first half of this book is an analysis of new, hereditary, and ecclesiastical (*) states. It claims that the title figure must be both cunning like a fox and powerful like a lion, as evidenced by the success of Cesare Borgia. Written for Lorenzo de'Medici, this work famously states that if a ruler must choose one, it is better to be feared than to be loved. For 10 points, name this political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli.
This book notes that "men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their inheritance.
The Prince [or Il Principe]