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| INTRODUCTION |
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| FURTHER READING |
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| LETTER TO VETTORI, 10 December 1513 |
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1 | (4) |
| THE PRINCE |
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5 | (1) |
| Dedication |
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Chapter One: How many types of principality are there? And how are they acquired? |
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6 | (1) |
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Chapter Two: On hereditary principalities. |
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Chapter Three: On mixed principalities. |
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7 | (7) |
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Chapter Four: Why the kingdom of Darius, which Alexander occupied, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander's death. |
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14 | (3) |
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Chapter Five: How you should govern cities or kingdoms that, before you acquired them, lived under their own laws. |
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17 | (1) |
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Chapter Six: About new kingdoms acquired with one's own armies and one's own skill [virtu]. |
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18 | (3) |
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Chapter Seven: About new principalities that are acquired with the forces of others and with good luck. |
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21 | (6) |
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Chapter Eight: Of those who come to power through wicked actions. |
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27 | (4) |
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Chapter Nine: Of the citizen-ruler. |
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31 | (3) |
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Chapter Ten: How one should measure the strength of a ruler. |
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34 | (1) |
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Chapter Eleven: About ecclesiastical states. |
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35 | (3) |
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Chapter Twelve: How many types of army are there, and what opinion should one have of mercenary soldiers? |
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38 | (4) |
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Chapter Thirteen: About auxiliary troops, native troops, and composite armies. |
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42 | (3) |
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Chapter Fourteen: What a ruler should do as regards the militia. |
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45 | (2) |
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Chapter Fifteen: About those factors that cause men, and especially rulers, to be praised or censured. |
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47 | (2) |
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Chapter Sixteen: On generosity and parsimony. |
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49 | (2) |
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Chapter Seventeen: About cruelty and compassion; and about whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. |
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51 | (2) |
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Chapter Eighteen: How far rulers are to keep their word. |
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53 | (3) |
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Chapter Nineteen: How one should avoid hatred and contempt. |
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56 | (7) |
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Chapter Twenty: Whether the building of fortresses (and many other things rulers regularly do) is useful or not. |
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63 | (4) |
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Chapter Twenty-One: What a ruler should do in order to acquire a reputation. |
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67 | (3) |
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Chapter Twenty-Two: About those whom rulers employ as advisers. |
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70 | (1) |
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Chapter Twenty-Three: How sycophants are to be avoided. |
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71 | (2) |
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Chapter Twenty-Four: Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states. |
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73 | (1) |
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Chapter Twenty-Five: How much fortune can achieve in human affairs, and how it is to be resisted. |
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74 | (3) |
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Chapter Twenty-Six: Exhortation to seize Italy and free her from the barbarians. |
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77 | (4) |
| INDEX |
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