One can draw a general rule from this, which rarely fails—whoever helps someone else to power gets ruined.
The reason is that it takes industry or force to make someone powerful, and both of these are suspect in the mind of the one who becomes powerful.
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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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