There is no doubt that a prince will gain a reputation, so it is how he gains this that Machiavelli is concerned with. Not only the portion with the title “how a prince acts to acquire reputation,” but the entire excerpt from the book The Prince raises the issue of a prince’s reputation.
In the first chapter, for lack of a better word, Machiavelli states that if a Prince wants to avoid poverty being labeled a miser, as a prince should not be a worry. This is said with the idea that a Prince might not want to rob his subjects monetarily. However, he reiterates the honest truth by saying that the Prince has to spend someone else’s money, if not his own.
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