Lessons from Thomas Cromwell and Niccolo Machiavelli about winning friends and influencing people in the White House ...

Bill Watterson published thousands of Calvin and Hobbes strips, but some essential quotes stand out. Dust specks and ...

Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from the classic writings The Way of Chuang Tzu translated by Thomas Merton. Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the ...

Most scholars would agree that the popular image is a distortion of the real Niccolò Machiavelli’s ideas. In Be Like the Fox Erica Benner brings to life a Machiavelli who’s a man of considerable ...

In the following extract from the Discourses Niccolò Machiavelli sets out how ambitious men who start out by trying to defend themselves from attack, often end up oppressing others. It sets out one ...

Pope Francis, while recalling Saint Thomas Aquinas as "a man of the Church" with "great spiritual and human wisdom", has appointed Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the ...

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