The Prince
"He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived." - Niccolo Machiavelli
How true indeed, although that is not to say that i consider myself a great personage or something to that effect. Yet it does reflect how, often, one always holds a grudge, and never lets it out, even when the associated offending party in question tries to heal the wound. It is in all manners similar to a malignant cancer, always growing, always gnawing away, until all that we hold inside is rotten away to the core.
In other interesting ideas, Machiavelli also expounds on how usurpers to a throne or, in our context, any seat of power, as it may be, must do all the harm and destruction necessary to consolidate power within the shortest time possible, such that the people will forget them, and then he must spread benefits of his rule slowly over a long time frame, such that there is that ever-present gratituity from the populace.
Interesting, no? Shall continue on this when I have finished reading The Prince.
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