... down almost to an exact science, while others are utterly lost in the world of power. How does one become a price or a ruler? According to Machiavelli, one can inherit the position, such as a prince would inherit the throne from his father, the King. Inheriting power is the much easier to rule than ... , there are very few times where the people of a state love their ruler, especially in a society where they don't have to or need to. Machiavelli mention another way of coming into power, another method is more difficult and harder to retain power. It is to conquer another state, this task...

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... failed Hitler, rather than vice versa. 2 It is therefore doubtful that Hitler would have ever acknowledged, let alone fixed his mistakes through his dense haze of egotism. And as Niccolo Machiavelli (great Renaissance political thinker) said, "Political misjudgments and wrong turns are like tuberculosis, hard to detect and easy to cure in the beginning and easy to diagnose and very hard ... end." 3 Even if he were to realize some of them at the end of the war, it would have already been too late to correct his horrendous mistakes, just as Machiavelli says. And because of his selfishness...

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