Note that you have to be either soft or harsh, because men take offense easily at small insults, but they can't react against harsh measures.
When you offend someone, be sure they are incapable of revenge.
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Those who have read Machiavelli in depth have positive opinions; those who have not read his works have negative opinions. When he suggests guiding principles for a Prince concerning his land and people, the principles are not anchored in Machiavelli, the man, but in Machiavelli, the scientist. Because those principles are revealed through his science, we should judge him by the science he’s discovered and not by the truths discovered through that science, because too often those truths are not to our liking.
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