Machiavelli's Grim but HONEST Advice to GOOD People

Machiavelli's Shocking Success Strategies EXPOSED

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What if being “nice” is the very thing holding you back? Niccolò Machiavelli, cast out and betrayed by the same city he served, understood that success is rarely born of kindness alone. In The Prince, he revealed that while love is conditional and fleeting, fear commands respect and ensures survival. “It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both,” he argued—not as a tyrant, but as a realist who saw human nature’s flaws. To succeed, he taught, one must balance a lion's strength with a fox's cunning, mastering both adaptability (virtù) and the unpredictability of luck (Fortuna). Machiavelli’s lesson is clear: in a world where kindness is often mistaken for weakness, only those who pair compassion with strength genuinely thrive.

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[rexboaden]

This video is helpful in putting The Prince in the context of Machiavelli’s life experiences. So many interpretations simply take the words of The Prince at face value, as a manifesto for the power hungry.

[Masterofphilosophy]

Keep Your Enemies Guessing: Want to make sure everyone’s paying attention to you? Be unpredictable. Machiavelli didn’t believe in the element of surprise — he believed in constant surprise. No one will see you coming, not even yourself.

[tarugardiner]

Its obvious that you have to be ruthless and lack empathy to get material wealth in this System, It's no wonder I've got nothing in the material, well there are numerous factors that have put myself in this position, The Machaivillians or who follow these ideologies, ie Capitalists, that rule with greed and a iron fist .

[Helena-tomy]

Machiavelli was most definitely a psychopath. Being kind is not weakness, it is strength.