The Prince

A Reputation for Generosity

Holding 6, When Virtue Becomes Harm

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Here Machiavelli enters this book with a different posture than before.

He says we should look not at how a person ought to live, but at how they actually do. In that gap between ideal and reality, he points out how the virtue of generosity can end up doing harm.

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