324. Maintaining the Balance of Financial Power in your favour

Always encourage extravagance and indebtedness in others while observing the virtues of thrift austerity and frugality yourself thus maintaining the balance of power in your favour.

143. Austerity

"Austere perseverence, harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time." - Goethe
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