When dogs are pregnant do you think they know? Or one day they just give birth to a bunch of puppies and are like “Holy shit! That’s what was going on!”
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a Machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and ‘gives the whole show away.’ The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.