This means they rely on other people to live fully. Although they are born with needs such as food and shelter, their needs are best met when they interact with others. Machiavelli, on the other hand, does not believe that people need others to survive, especially princes. Indeed, Machiavelli states: "Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not personally experienced." So, since men, by nature, are afraid of new things, then how could they go out and interact with people they don't know? ? It would be impossible for someone scared of new things to interact with new people, so both respective ideas cannot exist at the same time. Furthermore, Plato places a lot of emphasis on the human soul and the different parts of someone's soul. In the soul every person has the ability to reason, liveliness and their own personal appetites. However, Machiavelli does not directly mention the ability of human beings to display their ability to reason; he believes that they can only truly show the arrogant and greedy side of their nature for a long period of time. Both Machiavelli and Plato have similar thoughts regarding the predetermination of a person, where a certain human being is chosen at birth how he will be or how he will act. It's the way they are selected that they both disagree on. With Plato, he believes that humans are chosen at birth as to what they will be like, but have the ability to reason and