Deliberately plot out how we were going to get from complete-Mom-supervision to complete-Momless-independence.

The similarity of these Indian and Greek tales of far-ranging warful travels should not surprise us: their authors were people of the horse, they rode far in several directions—south, west, east—from their “origins” in the Caucasus region; […]

So that wherever there is sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced, and present in the understanding.

These were the Machiavellisms that the ancient ages produced for us before Machiavelli was in the world, and an infinity of persons Machiavellize among us today who have never read his books.