THE BOOK OF
GIANTS
Machiavelli decides to be nice
Chapter 13
With so much fun breaking out all over the place, eMachiavelli decided that it would be nice of him to think up some new rules for all the popes and kings and nobles who were responsible for running things,
2And so he wrote a handbook called ‘The Prince,’
3Which explained in great detail how you could run things and have a lot of fun at the same time.
4fFor example, Machiavelli explained that the most important rule was to do to others before they did to you,
5Which is the best way of making sure that the laugh is on them,
6And not on you.
7The other rule was just as important, though,
8Which is that there aren’t any other rules.
9g‘The Prince’ went on to become a big best-seller,
10And practically indispensable to popes and kings and nobles and other Christians who had lots of land and money and buildings,
11For about five hundred years,
12hProving once again that you can’t suppress a really good idea,
13iEspecially if you have a printing press.
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