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Should you ever find yourself governing a 16th Century Italian City State...
Machievelli suggests that you chose the wisest people in your state; give them complete freedom to speak, but only on those subjects on which you question them. Of course you should question them on everything.
To allow complete freedom to everybody breeds contempt; to be indulged by flattery breeds complacency.