This Passage From Chapter XVI Illustrates Machiavelli’S (characters)

This character appears in 1 book.

1. 

   

   • plan to read
   • reading now
   • I’ve read it
   • favorite
   • want to own
   • own it
   • remove book

   The Prince

   by Niccolò Machiavelli

   Memorable Quotes by This Passage From Chapter XVI Illustrates Machiavelli’S :

   “Only the expenditure of one’s own resources is harmful; and, indeed, nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does. The more it is indulged, the fewer are the means to indulge it further. As a consequence, a prince becomes poor and contemptible or, to escape poverty, becomes rapacious and hateful. Of all the things he must guard against, hatred and contempt come first, and liberality leads to both. Therefore it is better to have a name for miserliness, which breeds disgrace without hatred, than, in pursuing a name for liberality, to resort to rapacity, which breeds both disgrace and hatred.”

Do you know another book that mentions this character?

To add a book to this page, search for it and add “This Passage From Chapter XVI Illustrates Machiavelli’S ” to its characters section.