Except that Machiavelli didn't believe what you attribute to him. Only the first of four items in your list did Machiavelli advocate in The Prince; none of the

Except that Machiavelli didn't believe what you attribute to him. Only the first of four items in your list did Machiavelli advocate in The Prince; none of the items you mention were virtues to Machiavelli in The Discourses. Even in the case of manipulation and deception by a prince (think governance not commerce) - Machiavelli viewed it as virtuous only given the state of affairs among the competing principalities and countries of the time. The Prince was Machiavelli's Leviathan, his answer to the nasty, brutish and short state of nature. Of note, Machiavelli was tortured by the Medici's so the sadism, in particular, he'd have found offensive.