THE PRINCE stunned Europe at the time of its publication with its defense of relentless strategies on how to gain power and its disregard of traditional forms of morality. Machiavelli was inspired by his own experience of working for the swirling Florentine republic, dismissing old principles of political theory and accepting the intricate, ephemeral composition of politics. Machiavelli was famous for centuries with THE PRINCE, his witty and derisive work about power liaisons. The main topics of this ground-breaking, and prominent, writer is that being adaptable is the way to being successful and that efficient leadership is sometimes only attained by sacrificing morality.