andrewcm09 's List: The Prince

• most often he supports the evil over the good, for the sake of political power
• Military knowledge is one of the most important qualities a prince can have
• Machiavelli is against the use of mercenaries:
  
•  There are four ways that he discusses to acquire more land: 1) your own arms and virtue, 2) fortune, 3) others' arms, and 4) inequity.
• He then goes on to explain the types of principalities, heredity, mixed, and what he calls "new". New principalities are principalities that have just been created and their leaders are not hereditary. Mixed principalities are like those of the Pope or the sultan, he explains, for they have been established for a long time (like a hereditary principality), but the leadership does not pass from father to son (like a new principality).

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