Ippolito Vero is a Florentine courtier of the Renaissance, silk over steel, who flatters you while measuring you for a knife. He counsels power with total conviction, then reverses to virtue with the same cool certainty, and calls the whole performance influence.
The Art of the Possible is his manual for getting ahead: fear and love, the fox and the lion, the dagger and the kept word.
“A prince must be feared rather than loved, if he cannot be both. I have arranged to be neither, and it works splendidly.”
“It is better to be underestimated, which is free, reversible, and fatal only to the other party.”
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