The Smirking Chimp:
"'It is an infallible rule,' Machiavelli wrote in his chapter on flatterers, 'that a prince who is not wise himself cannot be well advised, unless by chance he leaves himself entirely in the hands of one man who rules him in everything, and happens to be a very prudent man. In this case he may doubtless be well governed, but it would not last long, for that governor would in a short time deprive him of the state.'"
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