The Prince

<p><strong>The lion cannot guard himself from the toils nor the fox from wolves. A Prince must therefore be a fox to discern toils and a lion to drive off wolves.</strong></p><p>Discover the etymology behind the common description of Machiavellian to describe deception dishonesty and cruelty to meet a goal. <em>The Prince</em> by Niccolò Machiavelli was written as a means of governing using means that were meant to deceive and manipulate a government's constituency even to the point of advocating the use of evil as a means of political expediency.</p><p>In this classic work the end justifies the means reigns paramount to Machiavelli's system of government.</p>