Via carl, commenting on a post by Matt Yglesias, I am alerted to some priceless advice from Machiavelli:
"It is an infallible rule that a prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.... If a prince who is not experienced should take counsel from more than one he will never get united counsels, nor will he know how to unite them. Each of the counsellors will think of his own interests, and the prince will not know how to control them or to see through them."
-- Machiavelli, The Prince (Chap. 23)No relevance to the present day, is there?
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