Chapter

 1 Ded  |           with such things as they hold most precious, or in which
 2 Ded  |       possessions anything which I hold more dear than, or value
 3 Ded  |            it acceptable.~Nor do I hold with those who regard it
 4 I    |         powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been
 5 III  |          they are, it is easier to hold them, especially when they
 6 III  |            self-government; and to hold them securely it is enough
 7 III  |      annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in
 8 III  |         great energy are needed to hold them, and one of the greatest
 9 III  |          care that they do not get hold of too much power and too
10 III  |       acquired, and whilst he does hold it he will have endless
11 IV   | difficulties which men have had to hold a newly acquired state,
12 IV   |           a prince and barons, who hold that dignity by antiquity
13 IV   |        recognize them as lords and hold them in natural affection.
14 IV   |            prince and his servants hold their prince in more consideration,
15 IV   |           easy; but if you wish to hold it afterwards, you meet
16 IV   |            But it is impossible to hold with such tranquillity states
17 V    |      courses for those who wish to hold them: the first is to ruin
18 V    |         accustomed to freedom will hold it more easily by the means
19 V    |            The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia,
20 V    |          lose them. They wished to hold Greece as the Spartans held
21 V    |         and did not succeed. So to hold it they were compelled to
22 VII  |           in order that they might hold the cities both for his
23 VII  |    condition; besides, they cannot hold it because they have not
24 VII  |          to be prepared at once to hold that which fortune has thrown
25 VII  |          Colonna, while wishing to hold that and to advance further,
26 VIII |          even in peaceful times to hold the state, still less in
27 X    |           are supported; they also hold military exercises in repute,
28 XII  |      sought to acquire them and to hold them, it now remains for
29 XII  |         and when one is worthy, to hold him by the laws so that
30 XV   |            for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do
31 XVI  |         become rapacious, ought to hold of little account a reputation
32 XVII |          without it he would never hold his army united or disposed
33 XVIII|        good this precept would not hold, but because they are bad,
34 XIX  |            account when his people hold him in esteem; but when
35 XIX  |       mouths would be necessary to hold them in; and, on the other
36 XIX  |      should have been very easy to hold the empire, for, being the
37 XX   |             SOME princes, so as to hold securely the state, have
38 XX   |           that it was necessary to hold Pistoia by factions and
39 XX   |          with princes, in order to hold their states more securely,
40 XX   |          because, although you may hold the fortresses, yet they
41 XXI  |           societies44, he ought to hold such bodies in esteem, and
42 XXIII|   Therefore a wise prince ought to hold a third course by choosing
43 XXV  |        extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune