# The Prince, By Niccolo Machiavelli #Wisdom #politics #reading #book ## CHAPTER 3: MIXED MONACHIES **It is better to foresee problems and prevent it then solving them after it happen. (Thinking about case management, or project management, it is better to foresee problems that could arise in patients' life and prevent it then to solve them when a crisis happen)** "Remember what the doctors tell us about tuberculosis: in its early stages, it's easy to cure and hard to diagnose, but if you don't spot it and treat it, as time goes by it gets easy to diagnosis and hard to cure. So it is with affairs of state. See trouble in advance (but you have to be shrewd) and you can clear it up quickly. Miss it, and by the time it's big enough for everyone to see it will be too late to do anything about it." page 11 [[202102052045 Foresee problems and prevent it is better then solving them after it happen]] **Never put off any problems that you can foresee today, because it may not go away and get worse.** "Time hurries everything on and can just as easily make things worse as better." Page 12 **When you took over a new province that is different in culture and language the ruler should live there, so he can react and hold the new place down.** Chapter 3. Mixed Monarchies **You either pamper the people, of attack them; If you have to attack an enemy make sure they are destroyed, so they cannot rebel against you.** Chapter 3. Mixed Monarchies Power is influence. Influence is power. **Win the weaker states over by establish friendship, but keeping their power in check. Undermine the stronger power.** Because if the weaker states band themselves, and invite a stronger external power in, they will join the stronger power against you. **Never avoid trouble by avoiding war, because a worse war will come again later.** "...Let me repeat what I said earlier: you must never fail to respond to trouble just to avoid war, because in the end you won't avoid it, you'll just be putting it off to your enemy's advantage" Page 14 Reminded me that to make war, it should be from a proactive / active stance, not a reactive, passive stance. **Helping the ruler to grow stronger is to weaken oneself** **Build power through strength or flair** "..To help another ruler to grow powerful is to prepare your own ruin; because it takes flair or military strength to build up new power, and both will seem threatening to the person who has benefited from them." Chapter 3. Mixes monarchies ## CHAPTER 4: CONQUERED BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT, THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS DID NOT REBEL AGAINST HIS SUCCESSORS AFTER HIS DEATH. WHY NOT? Monarchies are govern either by a ruler with absolute power with appointed ministers, or through barons. For Barons- Easier to conquer but hard to hold on to. For absolute king - Harder to conquer easier to hold. Reminded me of how America invasion to Iraq. They easily overwhelmed the ruler through military strength but hard to hold on to power because there are many tribal leaders (barons). "So long as people remembered their old loyalties to local lords, Rome was never in complete control. But once the power and permanence of empire had extinguished those loyalties then Rome became the undisputed master of the region" - page 18 Then the challenge would be for infighting among the ruling empire.