Essay on Human Values and Goodness
In Machiavelli's view, expedient simplicity is the primary path to political accomplishment and political accomplishment leads to power. Power is the foundation of the good life for Machiavelli and in his view, a prince should be concerned only with power and only by rules that would lead to success in political actions.
Machiavelli displays this view of power by saying, "The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can, and for this they will be praised not blamed; but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame." It appears that, he was speaking of a situation in which of a fictional prince.
Throughout the book, Machiavelli makes it clear that what is of the greatest good is that which most serves the intentions and goals of the prince himself. As he points out, "he who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest." Human values are related to the political life