History-Makers: Machiavelli

If I could have a conversation with any person in History, it's Machiavelli. Easy. And I wouldn't even have to do anything, I'd just say "So, tell me about Rome" and watch the fireworks. In the meantime, I'll settle for playing Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and liberating Roma with my boy Niccolò.

[asch]

I can't believe this incredibly historically villianized man used to cosplay ancient rome by himself in his room to calm himself down, I mean talk about escapism

[Yora]

You either become a famous political analyst, or you troll so hard that you go down in history as a villain.

[TheTrainmobile]

"It is my intention to write a book that will be useful, at least to those who read it intelligently..."
I know a clap back when I see one. What an absolute savage.

[Flopsos]

last time i was this early the *ROMAN EMPIRE WAS SAWED IN HALF* to show the power of flex tape

[stevenjlovelace]

So Machiavelli got exiled from Florence the same way Blue got exiled from Red's comfy chair next to the fireplace. Now he's doomed to lecture from a white abyss.

[Syryu]

Super Villain: It is as Machiavelli said! 'It's better to be feared than loved!'
Heroically Informed Protagonist: Actually Machiavelli meant that in a situation where you had to choose between fear and love, fear was safer, but a ruler had to work so he wasn't flat out hated.
Villain: ....What?
Protagonist: Yeah. And Machiavelli was very much for the Republic and people working together for the greater good of the Republic. So....by trying to put the entire world under your rule, you're actually going against just about everything Machiavelli stood for.
Villain: What! But... I!
Protagonist *Holds up the Prince* You never actually read this book thoroughly and intellectually did you?
*Cue Villainous Breakdown*

[andyrihn]

“Machiavelli is the most criminally misunderstood writer in history”

Nietzsche would like to have a word with you...before he has a nervous breakdown

[vermilionrubin]

Also that (in)famous quote: 'better to be feared than loved', if I remember good, it was in the context of: 'if you can't have both... and, for the love of God, don't make people hate you'.

[Cheatera]

Still sounds like Machiavelli was playing fourth dimensional chess while everyone else was failing to learn checkers.

[joeevans]

Machiavelli trying to divert a river with Leonardo da Vinci where's that mission Assassins

[JaelaOrdo]

“Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.”

- Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

[michaelscott]

Big Mach: "Hey, guys, so this is what I wrote..."
Everyone else: *Proceeds to take the EXACT OPPOSITE MEANING*
Big Mach: "...I don't want to live on this planet anymore."

[jpegimage-xh]

"This stuff is comedy GOLD for the next Pope Fights."

I'm sorry, so we're getting more Pope Fights? Color me excited!

[weldonwin]

Machiavelli: *(Wearing a Beret and Glasses)* I write Political treatises ironically, not that *You* would get it

[SonofSethoitae]

So, Blue loves Machiavelli because he too laid awake at night thinking about Rome?

[Pigeonswain]

He'd DEFINITELY have a podcast if he were here today

[DomenBremecXCVI]

History proved that using irony as a way of writing doesn't always work as it's hard to read the tone of your voice.

[pridelander]

"The Senate sends its regards!" *tackled to ground*


Probably should have ambushed Commodus at, oh, let's say, a wedding.

[archsteel]

People who hate Machiavelli: "He's a scheming little monster who advocates for tyrants!"

Machiavelli: "R/whoosh"

[lorisuprifranz]

"During history a lot of people didn't read The Prince intelligently!"
Mussolini: Wait, what ?