By David Villacorta
A ruler cannot base his fate on fortune, for it can change from one minute to the other, and can make the ruler lose immensely. He says that something’s cannot be avoided, and that it has to be that way thanks to fortune and God, however he says there are things that can be avoided.
He uses women as figure to make the reader understand how fortune has to be managed. He says that it has to be done in a way in which many obstacles can be avoided. Fortune has to be beat down and controlled, for it prefers younger men like women, because they are docile and easy to handle.
Today many rulers do not act on fortune, the ones who do, fail, and besides, the figure of God is not as important as it was in those times. Now, many may still base their actions in fortune, and that would be a pity for the ruler since he needs to have it all figure out by their own intellect.
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