• It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

    Niccolo Machiavelli: It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.
    Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing