/lit/ - Literature

How to be a better person? How do you develop meaning in your life to the degree that you always have compassion and levity to grant to other humans?

Surely there are books about this. I know that it must be "meaning" itself that I have warped and royally fucked up. I know that in regular human interaction, most humans have a narrative they believe in that allows them to extend themselves to others. This seems so impossible.

What would he think of Islam as a political religion considering his views on Christianity?

Are any of Machiavelli's plays worth reading?

What are some books about political strategy?

How can anyone compete against the Fiorentino drip

what does /lit/ think about him?

>>20086371
At least this cunt looks cheeky

>>20065920
Traduttore, traditore.

And are any of the concepts applicable to day to day life (especially amongst those in social scenes)?

>have a spine so people listen to you
Genius. Simply genius. The father of political philosophy.

ALL political theory is derivative of right wing intellectual thought, yet the right hardly holds power

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>>18458418
unironically this nigga

Are you a Sigma Machiavellian Renaissance man or are you a Deontologist law-of-nations-sucking Moralist faggot????

So i just finished The Prince, can i apply any of it in real life? I think i sorta got the main message, i think you have to be good but be prepared to do bad in order to get or stay in power, to do whatever it takes, be immoral and lie etc.

Any other based authors like this guy?

emotional shawty in this bitch

Is he the only irrefutable philosopher?

Was he based?

>I conclude, thus, that when fortune varies and men remain obstinate in their modes, men are happy while they are in accord, and as they come into discord, unhappy. I judge this indeed, that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, because fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to beat her and strike her down. And one sees that she lets herself be won more by the impetuous than by those who proceed coldly. And so always, like a woman, she is the friend of the young, because they are less cautious, more ferocious, and command her with more audacity.
What the FUCK was wrong with him?

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With the advent of forums and social media is it possible that all great minds, that would historically have produced massive quantities of profound works are reduced to tweets and shit posts?

Where once your thoughts would be organized, and put into long form over a lengthy period of time and polished over and over, instead the convenience of cheap and quick distribution of thoughts and theories is a major limiting factor in the production of creative genius.

We have many billions more people exist since the time of Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky, but where are their equals? Shouldn't we have 10 or 20 of them each? They have all been relegated to simple quips.

Is it worth reading? Which edition should I get? I'm assuming not the shitty penguin one

>acquiring power to affect change
>not acquiring power in order to acquire more power in an exponential fashion until you obtain absolute power
>then you can choose any outcome you want