The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

⏱ 8 minWisdom classic

The coldest, most quoted handbook of power ever written: how to seize a state and hold it, why it is safer to be feared than loved, and how a ruler must learn when not to be good. Machiavelli's ruthless masterpiece.

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