In one chapter of this work, the author questions why conquered people remained loyal to Alexander the Great's successors. Another chapter of this work explained how cutting the murderer Remirro de Orco in half quelled a rebellion and claimed that Septimius Severus "knew well how to be the fox and the lion." This work claims that the selection of Pope Julius II was the ruin of Cesare Borgia, who was identified as an example of the title figure. Name this work that claims it is better to be feared than loved, a political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli.
a) The Prince
b) Discourses on Livy
c) The Art of War
d) The Republic