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Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince

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1 III | there because of your not being able to satisfy them in 2 III | old conditions, and not being unlike in customs, will 3 III | injure him; whilst the rest being uninjured are easily kept 4 III | injured, as has been said, being poor and scattered, cannot 5 III | to their ruin, for they, being powerful, would always have 6 IV | above; for his ministers, being all slaves and bondmen, 7 IV | of the prince, and, this being exterminated, there remains 8 IV | After which victory, Darius being killed, the state remained 9 IV | family of the former lord being exterminated, none other 10 V | Because such a government, being created by the prince, knows 11 V | family is exterminated, they, being on the one hand accustomed 12 VI | opportunity; for the Syracusans, being oppressed, chose him for 13 VI | afterwards he was rewarded by being made their prince. He was 14 VII | fortune become princes from being private citizens have little 15 VII | corruption of the soldiers, from being citizens came to empire. 16 VII | with great ability, from being a private person rose to 17 VII | because, as is said, not being able to elect a Pope to 18 VII | hindered any other from being elected Pope; and he ought 19 VIII | be Praetor of Syracuse. Being established in that position, 20 VIII | under Paolo Vitelli, that, being trained under his discipline, 21 VIII | and in a very short time, being endowed with wit and a vigorous 22 VIII | follows from severities16 being badly or properly used. 23 VIII | all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend 24 IX | people, because of their being too many, whilst from the 25 IX | rise against him; for they, being in these affairs more far-seeing 26 IX | without the same nobles, being able to make and unmake 27 X | year in the field without being interfered with. And whoever 28 XI | are secure and happy. But being upheld by powers, to which 29 XI | no more of them, because, being exalted and maintained by 30 XI | the barons of Rome, who, being divided into two factions, 31 XII | degree the causes of their being good or bad, and having 32 XII | their liberty.~Duke Filippo being dead, the Milanese enlisted 33 XIII | theirs.~The Florentines, being entirely without arms, sent 34 XIII | Greece, who, on the war being finished, were not willing 35 XIII | Hiero, the Syracusan, he being one of those I have named 36 XIII | recognized the necessity of being armed with forces of his 37 XIII | subordinated to others, for, being as they are so accustomed 38 XIV | Francesco Sforza, through being martial, from a private 39 XIV | among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes 40 XIV | servants. Because, there being in the one disdain and in 41 XV | of other people. But, it being my intention to write a 42 XV | and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are 43 XV | lose him it; but this not being possible, he may with less 44 XVI | once into the reproach of being miserly.~Therefore, a prince, 45 XVI | Therefore, a prince, not being able to exercise this virtue 46 XVI | to fear the reputation of being mean, for in time he will 47 XVI | account a reputation for being mean, for it is one of those 48 XVI | having been liberal, and by being considered so, I answer: 49 XVI | above all things, against being despised and hated; and 50 XVII | cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. Hence Virgil, 51 XVII | of her reign owing to its being new, saying:~Res dura, et 52 XVII | he can endure very well being feared whilst he is not 53 XVII | glory of Scipio; but, he being under the control of the 54 XVII | Returning to the question of being feared or loved, I come 55 XVIII | durable. A prince, therefore, being compelled knowingly to adopt 56 XVIII | which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to 57 XVIII(40)| the text of the Testina, being used to signify indifferently 58 XIX | XIX~THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HATED~Now, 59 XIX | latter he is defended by being well armed and having good 60 XIX | secure himself by avoiding being hated and despised, and 61 XIX | as princes cannot help being hated by someone, they ought, 62 XIX | the first place, to avoid being hated by every one, and 63 XIX | Pertinax, and Alexander, being all men of modest life, 64 XIX | people; and afterwards, being possessed of many virtues 65 XIX | wishes of the soldiers, who, being accustomed to live licentiously 66 XIX | unjudged; nevertheless, being considered effeminate and 67 XIX | the latter he wrote that, being elected emperor by the Senate, 68 XIX | to hold the empire, for, being the son of Marcus, he had 69 XIX | people and soldiers; but, being by nature cruel and brutal, 70 XIX | contempt with the soldiers, and being hated by one party and despised 71 XIX | warlike man, and the armies, being disgusted with the effeminacy 72 XIX | brought him into contempt (it being well known to all, and considered 73 XIX | Macrinus, or Julian, who, being thoroughly contemptible, 74 XIX | of the Soldan is similar; being entirely in the hands of 75 XIX | only noblemen. And this being an ancient custom, it cannot 76 XIX | Pertinax and Alexander, being new princes, to imitate 77 XX | enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were 78 XX | them, cares little about being hated by the people.~ 79 XXI | by fame and glory, from being an insignificant king to 80 XXI | himself the reputation of being a great and remarkable man.~ 81 XXI | Antiochus went into Greece, being sent for by the Aetolians 82 XXI | avoid as much as possible being at the discretion of any 83 XXIII | has around him, and he, being pliant, is diverted from 84 XXIV | Greece who attacked him, yet being a warlike man who knew how 85 XXV | to its violence, without being able in any way to withstand 86 XXV | equally successful, the one being cautious, the other impetuous; 87 XXV | Messer Giovanni Bentivogli being still alive. The Venetians 88 XXV | therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast


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