Niccolò Machiavelli
Where The Prince was mentioned: 4 timestamped quotes from 4 episodes across 2 podcasts.
“action. And one of the things you said you took away from reading Machiavelli is that we should judge people not by what they say, but by what they do.”
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #498 · Lex Fridman Podcast
“He writes The Prince. He dedicates it to Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici and gives it to him in 1513. He says in the final chapter, "You're the only person who can bring Italy from its current”
Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer · Dwarkesh Podcast
“That is the war Machiavelli watched. Machiavelli was raised on all of the Cicero and Livy.”
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer · Dwarkesh Podcast
“He's talking about it in The Prince. He says, "Forget about love because you can't make people like you.”
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China · Dwarkesh Podcast