The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and
political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and
royals. The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes –
such as glory and survival – can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those
ends.
Although The Prince was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for
princes style, it was generally agreed as bei ...