Sometimes one story will perfectly coincide with the information given in another story. The first story may tell a tale, and the second may describe the behavior of characters. And, even though both stories make perfect sense when compared to one another neither was writing for the other. This is true of Machiavelli's The Prince and a book in the Bible Exodus. Machiavelli describes how leaders should act and show wisdom in certain episodes or situations and the character Moses, in Exodus, adheres to these Machiavellian principles of becoming and being a leader.
             Moses is a young Hebrew boy living in Egypt. The Egyptians were looking to kill all male Hebrew babies, and Moses' mother wanted to protect her son. She put him in a floating basket and set him in a stream. Ironically Moses was picked up by the princess of Egypt and was adopted as her son. As Moses grew into a man he had no idea that he was something other than an Egyptian prince. Being a prince Moses was already a born leader by watching and mimicking the Pharaoh, king, of Egypt. Moses was still instilled with the values of his Hebrew heritage for Pharaoh's daughter paid a Hebrew slave to raise Moses as an Egyptian prince, but this slave was Moses' mother.
             "From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both then one and the other; but because it is difficult to combine them, it is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both" (The Prince, 54) Moses' case is one of both love or compassion and fear. "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand."...