One section of this work discusses the idea that a reputation for generosity leads to grief, and another states that one may safeguard himself by not showing sensitivity to truth.
One section of this work discusses the idea that a reputation for generosity leads to grief, and another states that one may safeguard himself by not showing sensitivity to truth. The 18th section of this work discusses the importance of the ways of the fox and the lion when acting as a beast, and the author states that a certain individual should escape being hated if he is to be (*) feared instead of loved, and indicates that the titular subject needn't have all of the qualities he mentions, but that "he should certainly appear to have them." Beginning with a letter to Lorenzo de Medici, this is, for 10 points, which work of political philosophy by Niccolo Macchiavelli?
One section of this work discusses the idea that a reputation for generosity leads to grief, and another states that one may safeguard himself by not showing sensitivity to truth.
The {Prince} [or Il {Principe}]