Chapter

 1 II   | principalities. In doing so I will keep to the order indicated above,
 2 III  |            and you are not able to keep those friends who put you
 3 III  |        would not have been able to keep it. Because, if one is on
 4 III  |       either to do this or else to keep there a great number of
 5 III  |           he can send them out and keep them there, and he offends
 6 III  |            goodwill, he can easily keep down the more powerful of
 7 IV   |           which others have had to keep an acquisition, such as
 8 V    |            an oligarchy which will keep it friendly to you. Because
 9 V    |         and therefore he who would keep a city accustomed to freedom
10 VI   |           deeds, are yet unable to keep entirely to the ways of
11 VII  |          not forces which they can keep friendly and faithful.~States
12 VIII |             is always compelled to keep the knife in his hand; neither
13 IX   |      favour of the people ought to keep them friendly, and this
14 X    |         artillery, and they always keep in public depots enough
15 X    |        firing. And beyond this, to keep the people quiet and without
16 X    |            is almost impossible to keep an army a whole year in
17 X    |     difficult for a wise prince to keep the minds of his citizens
18 XI   |         defence of Ferrara; and to keep down the Pope they made
19 XII  |      proper for the Florentines to keep in with him, for if he became
20 XIII |          him that he could neither keep them nor let them go, he
21 XIV  |          ought above all things to keep his men well organized and
22 XV   |         him his state; and also to keep himself, if it be possible,
23 XVI  |           not strive afterwards to keep it up, when he made war
24 XVII |           above all things he must keep his hands off the property
25 XVIII|            IN WHICH PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH37~EVERY one admits
26 XVIII|  praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live with
27 XVIII|           cannot, nor ought he to, keep faith when such observance
28 XVIII|         they are bad, and will not keep faith with you, you too
29 XIX  |            enemy of the prince, to keep faith with you.~And, to
30 XIX  |      nobles to desperation, and to keep the people satisfied and
31 XIX  |          management of others, and keep those of grace in their
32 XIX  |        before, a prince wishing to keep his state is very often
33 XIX  |          for the people, he should keep them his friends. The kingdom
34 XIX  |      regard to the people, he must keep them his friends. But you
35 XIX  |         are proper and glorious to keep a state that may already
36 XX   |           tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more
37 XX   |      government, then he will only keep them friendly with great
38 XX   |          Castello so that he might keep that state; Guidubaldo,
39 XXII |       recognize the capable and to keep them faithful. But when
40 XXII |         concerned.~On the other to keep his servant honest the prince
41 XXIV |          that have power enough to keep an army in the field cannot
42 XXV  |          woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary