The chair is yours.

You know how it ends. They don’t.

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An illustrative AI-generated rendering of Niccolò Machiavelli at his writing desk outside Florence, December 1513, with an empty chair drawn up across from him — not a photograph, not a painting, and not a historical likeness of record.
“…it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.”
The Prince, chapter 17 — W. K. Marriott translation (1908)
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Checked word for word against Project Gutenberg eBook #1232, chapter XVII.
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December 1513 · Historical interpretation
A person. A moment. A question only you could bring.

Three lives.Your question.

Choose the room you need tonight.

An illustrative AI-generated rendering of Niccolò Machiavelli seated at his desk by candlelight, hand to his chin, December 1513 — not a photograph, not a painting, and not a historical likeness of record.
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Machiavelli

When the choice will cost you.

An illustrative AI-generated rendering of Seneca seated at a table on a villa terrace at sunset, AD 64 — not a photograph, not a painting, and not a historical likeness of record.
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Seneca

When you cannot keep postponing.

An illustrative AI-generated rendering of Ulysses S. Grant writing at a table on a porch at Mount McGregor, June 1885 — not a photograph, not a painting, and not a historical likeness of record.
03 / The workHistorical interpretation

Grant

When something remains unfinished.

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