By Christopher Maurer
The striking best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old e-book of knowledge on tips on how to reside effectively but responsibly in a society ruled by way of self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli but as humanistic and scrupulously ethical as Marcus Aurelius.
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