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Sep. 17th, 2015 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficI just finished rereading Machiavelli's "The Prince," the copy I'd studied from in college. In the whole book, this is the only thing I underlined:
Yeah. That about says it, doesn't it?
It is better to be impetuous than cautious, because fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to bear her and strike her down.
Yeah. That about says it, doesn't it?