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The fox and the lion*

In this post we will write few words about one Machiavelli's advice. According to VK, this advice can be useful in our job that is considered a jungle and how to get power and keep with it there. In one hand, you need to be able to find out the traps, so, smart as a fox and also make deals that sounds good to everyone when, in reality, they are really better to you, thinking in a selfish way. On the other hand, you need to be confident and fight against the wolves, so, you need to be stronger as a lion and dominate the place. For VK, Machiavelli is more interested in playing the game instead of be morally good. This is true in many aspects, but Machiavelli's philosophy is a bit more than that. For while, we can keep this teaching that VK cut from his famous book, The Prince.  However, we hope to go deeper in the future. One possibility is to investigate Machiavelli's concepts according to a proposal that can connect his ideas with Marx's ideas moving across Spinoza