11/12/00: Well, I already began one thread with Stoppard

Posted By: Philm_Phan

Hmm, how to follow up? The Machiavelli I was reading today should by rights do a good job of annoying l-s as an arcane literary selection, except that he’d love the political pragmatism. 1513, bestseller in the making:

“Everyone knows how laudable it is in a prince to keep his faith and to be an honest man, not a trickster. Nevertheless, the experience of our times shows that the princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises and who have known how the addle the brains of men with craft. In the end they have conquered those who have put their reliance on good faith.”

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