Machiavelli, in documenting the lives of great men who achieved great worldly success, who were lovers of riches, fame, and power, demonstrates how this triad seduces men and alienates their affections for truth, beauty, and goodness.
What you love reveals your character. If you love the world, you cannot love God. If you serve money you cannot serve Christ. To be friends with the world means you are an enemy of God. To love sin is to hate holiness. Conversely, to love holiness is to hate sin; to love God is to hate the world; to love Christ is to abandon riches, fame, and power.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his soul? What would a man give in exchange for his soul? What do you love more than God? What are you pursuing more than Christ? Loving riches, fame, and power precludes you from loving truth, beauty, and goodness.
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