Chapter

 1 Ded  |        attain that greatness which fortune and your other attributes
 2 Ded  |         and continued malignity of fortune.~
 3 I    |           or of others, or else by fortune or by ability.~
 4 III  |         are difficulties, and good fortune and great energy are needed
 5 VI   |      presupposes either ability or fortune, it is clear that one or
 6 VI   |            who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest.
 7 VI   |            ability and not through fortune, have risen to be princes,
 8 VI   |         that they owed anything to fortune beyond opportunity, which
 9 VI   |            either, owe anything to fortune but opportunity; for the
10 VII  |          ARMS OF OTHERS OR BY GOOD FORTUNE~THOSE who solely by good
11 VII  |           THOSE who solely by good fortune become princes from being
12 VII  |          upon the goodwill and the fortune of him who has elevated
13 VII  |            once to hold that which fortune has thrown into their laps,
14 VII  |          be a prince by ability or fortune, I wish to adduce two examples
15 VII  |           and extreme malignity of fortune.~Alexander VI, in wishing
16 VII  |           to all those who, by the fortune or the arms of others, are
17 VIII |          be entirely attributed to fortune or genius, yet it is manifest
18 VIII |         which can be attributed to fortune, inasmuch as he attained
19 VIII |            be attributed either to fortune or to genius.~In our times,
20 IX   |     principality: nor is genius or fortune altogether necessary to
21 IX   |        binds them entirely to your fortune, or they do not. Those who
22 XI   |         either by capacity or good fortune, and they can be held without
23 XI   |           Sixtus [IV], yet neither fortune nor wisdom could rid him
24 XIII |            foreigner. But his good fortune brought about a third event,
25 XIII |         Louis XI32, having by good fortune and valour liberated France
26 XIII |         entirely dependent on good fortune, not having the valour which
27 XIV  |           in adversity, so that if fortune changes it may find him
28 XVII |          in his bad or in his good fortune. This arose from nothing
29 XVIII|            winds and variations of fortune force it, yet, as I have
30 XX   |          confronted, and therefore fortune, especially when she desires
31 XXI  |         you become companions in a fortune that may rise again.~In
32 XXIV |         not let our princes accuse fortune for the loss of their principalities
33 XXV  |                   CHAPTER XXV~WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS,
34 XXV  |           in such wise governed by fortune and by God that men with
35 XXV  |            hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half
36 XXV  |      dangerous. So it happens with fortune, who shows her power where
37 XXV  |           concerning resistance to fortune in general.~But confining
38 XXV  |           who relies entirely upon fortune is lost when it changes.
39 XXV  |  administration is successful, his fortune is made; but if times and
40 XXV  |         his conduct with the times fortune would not have changed.~
41 XXV  |           conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind
42 XXV  | adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish
43 XXVI |         height of his career, that fortune rejected him; so that Italy,
44 XXVI |       house47, with its valour and fortune, favoured by God and by
45 XXVI |          rest, either by valour or fortune, that others would yield