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As the doctors say of a wasting disease, to start with it is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; after a time, unless it has been diagnosed and treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. So it is in politics.
Great Ideas #5: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Background
Machiavellian
Advice
Universality
Loved or feared
Conclusion