The Prince - Niccola Machiavelli

I am writing to you... once again... after more than 500 years have passed since the publication of this book that is in your hands... and you have certainly heard a lot about me... especially since many world leaders have been inspired by my ideas and theses on the topics of governance, authority and the state, in all parts of the world, and many politicians have placed my books under their pillows, and next to the presidential chair, and some of them have memorized my texts in the closet of their minds to deal with them in their administration of the state, until I became for them the secret friend who is rejected in public, and loved in secret