impressive point, and is very true, a prince must be able to be like a fox to see the traps and like a lion to terrify the wolves. This is a very practical opinion because there is no one on this earth that is truly trustworthy so a prince has to be able to sense a upcoming conflict, so in reality you have to always be cunning like a fox and at the same time be able to install fear into your opponents like a lion. Only with the fox and the lion working together, can the prince be truly successful. At the time when Machiavelli wrote the book the Prince, Italy was facing extremely troubling time. This influence is what drove Machiavelli to put together of the most practical solutions in hopes to mold the next desperately needed prince into the perfect leader. One needed to restore Italy to a unified and modern state, and hoped that after reading his political theories that Magnificent Lorenzo Medici would be that man.# Throughout the Prince Machiavelli came up with three excellent ideas first, that it is better to be feared then loved,# the second is concerning those who become princes by evil means,# and the third is in what way princes should keep their word.# From these argument some people may believe that Machiavelli is the pure embodyment of evil, but the truth is that he has only written what he believes to be what the deteriorating Italy needed. ...
