1. Most important advise to the prince is to ‘use the force ruthlessly’ to maintain and strengthen his authority.

2. Machiavelli advises the Prince to use the methods of propaganda and religion and act as both; fox and lion. For, force can not only bring the fruitful result.

3. In his opinion, a prince should be competent enough to take firm decisions because loosing initiative and delay are more dangerous than doing wrong.

4. He wants the rulers to maintain a well trained, regular national army of his own soldiers to defend the state and make it powerful. 5. For Machiavelli, a prince should be well versed in the art of war and maintain arms and ammunition of best quality.

6. Machiavelli exhorts that “a Prince should retain the affection of his people, otherwise in any crisis, he has no remedy.

7. According to Machiavelli, a prince should be better feared than loved, but should not be hated.

8. He warns the ruler not to intervene in the property and conjugal relations of its subjects, “A person will more readily forgive the murder of his father than the confiscation of his patrimony”.