Some compare him to philosophers like Plato and  Aristotle, while many maintain he was more akin to the Italian stateman Niccolo Machiavelli.

有人将他与柏拉图和亚里士多德等哲学家相提并论，而许多人则认为他更像是意大利政治家尼科洛·马基雅维利 (Niccolo Machiavelli)。