"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.“
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