Anti-Machiavellianism

Anti-Machiavellianism

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
— Ovid (43 BC - 18 AD)

Fish Eyes on Terra Firm - An Exercise in Gratitude

Anti-Machiavellianism

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward."
— Ovid (43 BC - 18 AD)

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Ovid - planksip

Ovid Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature.

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Kindness strikes me as a social act. Certainly one could heuristically prime themselves towards acts of kindness and self-validation, however, gratitude, for-me (and Cicero) is the greatest of virtues. The advice here is to pay swiftly and keep the punished guessing. Niccolò Machiavelli and Ovid are both fair game in any expansion that suits your highest ideal or philosophical reckoning. Expand away!

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