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In 1508, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a treatise on political power and skullduggery called "The Prince." In that book, he used an analogy comparing political problems with a disease of the time: "In this matter the situation is the same as physicians report concerning hectic fever: in the beginning the disease is easy to cure but hard to recognize; with the passage of time, having gone unrecognized and unmedicated, it becomes easy to diagnose but hard to cure. So it is with a state: when ills are recognized in advance (and only the prudent can do this), they are quickly cured. But when, having gone unrecognized, they are allowed to increase until everyone may recognize them, then remedy is no longer possible."