Footnotes
[[22]]
Machiavelli was a proper man and a good citizen; but, being attached
to the court of the Medici, he could not help veiling his love of
liberty in the midst of his country's oppression. The choice of his
detestable hero, Caesar Borgia, clearly enough shows his hidden aim; and
the contradiction between the teaching of the Prince and that of the
Discourses on Livy and the History of Florence shows that this profound
political thinker has so far been studied only by superficial or corrupt
readers. The Court of Rome sternly prohibited his book. I can well
believe it; for it is that Court it most clearly portrays.
[[23]]
Tacitus, Histories, i. 16. "For the best, and also the shortest way
of finding out what is good and what is bad is to consider what you
would have wished to happen or not to happen, had another than you been
Emperor."
