Isn’t The Prince satire? I could never believe this was seen as good advice. People have always made fun of those with their heads up their asses - and future g

Isn’t The Prince satire? I could never believe this was seen as good advice. People have always made fun of those with their heads up their asses - and future generations have often mistook it because we believe those from the past were more direct. Similarly, Polonius from Hamlet: “to thine own self be true” but spoken by a blowhard.