f and seem to have mercy, faith, integrity, humanity and religion. A ruler must be careful not to say anything outside of these 5 qualities. Machiavellie also talks about Means and Ends. If you succeed it will not matter what your means were b/c you have succeeded. A Machiavellian person is someone who is calculating, manipulating and dishonest. Machiavelli says that a ruler must be able to throw out those 5 qualities, and yet the ruler still needs to seem to be superhuman and invincible. A good leader will know when to be merciful and faithful, but also when not to be. Necessity rather than moral principle should guide a ruler. The ruler should not be opposed to immortality. If you kill to preserve the state, that is moral b/c other wise the state would fall and people would die and that would be immoral. There are times when a leader has to be evil. Morality depends on the circumstances....
