Chapter 16
A prince should not care about the infamy of meanness, for in the end this vice allows him to reign; Caesar attained empire by liberality but maintained it by parsimony.
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From The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
A reputation for liberality is acquired only by display that ultimately impoverishes the prince and forces him to extort his subjects; it is wiser to bear the name of miser, for parsimony is one of the vices that lets one rule.
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