Smallhouse Log

Epiphany

Machiavelli on the importance and proper management of advisors: "For being of a secret disposition, he never discloses his intentions to any, nor asks their opinion; and it is only when his plans are to be carried out that they begin to be discovered and known, and at the same time they begin to be thwarted by those he has about him, when he being facile gives way. Hence it happens that what he does one day, he undoes the next; that his wishes and designs are never fully ascertained; and that it is impossible to build on his resolves." Hmmm.

I found it amusing when taking the train the other day to see a man sleeping slouched in his seat, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People open on his chest.

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