Chapter 16

By David Villacorta

This chapter talks about generosity and miserliness in a ruler’s mandate. What is a prince suppose to do? To be known as to be miser or generous, at the end the author states that both can be ways to be known, but he finally says that it is best to be miser rather than generous. He says so because in that order the parties that keep you in power will not wage war against the principality.

Then he continues saying that there are ways to be generous, and that is as long as there are means to keep the state intact. He also mentions that it is ok to live of others. Like, use the resources of other nations in order to keep yours intact. So that makes me think that it happens today, where rich, developed countries use different means to get rich from other nations.