The world is dangerous and enemies are everywhere everyone has to protect themselves if it receives the safest and isolation that forces you to more than just that this protects you from his costume from Valerie information you make suspicious and easy I get better to circulate among people signed a lease mingo you are shielded from your enemies by the crowd machiavelli makes the argument that in a strictly military sense the fortress is invariably a mistake it becomes a symbol of powers isolation and is an easy target for his builders enemies designed to the venue what race is actually quoted from a rope and cut into your flexibility they may appear impregnable but once you retire 21 everyone knows where you are and yes it does not have to succeed to turn your photos into a prison with their small and confined spaces fortress is our also extremely vulnerable to the plague and contagious diseases in a strategic sense the oscillation of a fortress provides no protection and actually creates more problems than it solves because humans are social creatures by nature power depends on social interaction and circulation to make urself powerful you must place yourself at the centre of things all activities should revolve around you and you should be aware of everything happening on the street and of anyone who might be achieved plots against the danger for most people comes when they feel threatened in such times they tend to retreat and close ranks to find security in a kind of water is only so however they come to rely for information on you seem smaller and smaller circle and lose perspective on events around them they lose their ability and become easy targets and their isolationist them paranoid as in warfare and most games of strategy isolation of to process the faith and death in moments of uncertainty and danger you need to fight this desire to turn inward instead make yourself more accessible seek out hold a list and make new ones force yourself into more and more different circles this has been the trick of her four people for centuries the Roman statesman Cicero was born into the lower the bility and had little chance of power unless they managed to make a place for himself among the aristocrat who controlled the city he succeeded brilliantly identifying everyone with influence and finger I figured out how they were connected to one another I'm in good everywhere I knew everyone and had such a vast network of connections that anemone here could easily be counterbalanced by an alley here since women's and such social creatures it follows that the social act that make us pleasant to be around can only be practice by constant exposure and circulation the more graceful and artesia become a solution on the other hand engenders and awkwardness in your gestures and leads to further isolation as people start avoiding you instead of falling into the fortress mentality by the word in the following manner it is like a vast policy with every room communicating with one another you need to be permeable able to float in and out of different circles and mixed with different types that kind of mobility and social contact will protect you from lotus who will be unable to keep secrets with you from you and from your enemies who will be unable to isolate from your Alice always on the move you mix and mingle in the rooms of the palace never sitting or settling in one place no Hunter can fix his aim on such a sweet moving creature the fortress are up on the Hill the citadel becomes a symbol of all that is hateful in power and authority the citizens of the town betray you to be first enemies that comes cut off from communication and intelligence the citadel falsehood is a good and Wise princeDesirous of maintaining that character and why were given the opportunity to his sons to become aggressive will never beat fortresses so that they may place their reliance upon the Goodwill of their subjects and not upon the strength of citadels Do not build fortresses And isolation is dangerous