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Therefore, he who considers it necessary to secure himself in his

new principality, to win friends, to overcome either by force or

fraud, to make himself beloved and feared by the people, to be

followed and revered by the soldiers, to exterminate those who

have power or reason to hurt him, to change the old order of

things for new, to be severe and gracious, magnanimous and

liberal, to destroy a disloyal soldiery and to create new, to

maintain friendship with kings and princes in such a way that

they must help him with zeal and offend with caution, cannot find

a more lively example than the actions of this man.