It argues that its subject should choose between the lion and the fox and that actions are judged both by fortune and virtue.
In The Myth of the State, Ernst Cassirer states that this work's ideas are contradictory to those in the rest of its author's writings. This work argues that a special grace made Moses worthy to communicate with God, separating him from Romulus, Theseus, and Cyrus. This work argues that students of the centaur Chiron drew on both his beast and human halves, a dichotomy that it adapts to an animal that is helpless against snares and another that is helpless against wolves. It argues that its subject should choose between the lion and the fox and that actions are judged both by fortune and virtue. This work unhealthily idolizes Cesare Borgia and argues that if one had to choose only one, it is better to be feared than to be loved. For 10 points, name this political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli.
In The Myth of the State, Ernst Cassirer states that this work's ideas are contradictory to those in the rest of its author's writings.
The Prince [or Il Principe]