I do not wish to leave out an important branch of this subject, for it is a danger from which princes are with difficulty preserved, unless they are very careful and discriminating. It is that of flatterers, of whom courts are full, because men are so self-complacent in their own affairs, and in a way so deceived in them, that they are preserved with difficulty from this pest. — Nicolo Machiavelli,  The Prince , 1532 A Trumpworld figure isn’t judged On how he carries out some duty. It’s more