via Rob Henderson:
“When evening has come, I return to my house and go into my study. At the door I take off my clothes of the day, covered in mud and mire, and I put on my regal and courtly garments; and decently reclothed, I enter the ancient courts of ancient men, where, received by them lovingly, I feed on the food that alone is mine and that I was born for. There I am not ashamed to speak with them and to ask them the reason for their actions; and they in their humanity reply to me. And for the space of four hours I feel no boredom, I forget every pain, I do not fear poverty, death does not frighten me. I deliver myself entirely to them.”
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"Macchiavlli compares Christianity (or Humanism) unfavorably with Paganism, which made men more “ 'ferocious.' "
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"... Machiavelli asserted, one must adhere to the Roman ideal: Power, magnificence, pride, austerity, discipline, pursuit of glory."
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