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 1 I    |           or else by fortune or by ability.~
 2 IV   |         the little or abundance of ability in the conqueror, but by
 3 VI   |     ACQUIRED BY ONE’S OWN ARMS AND ABILITY~LET no one be surprised
 4 VI   |            supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at
 5 VI   |           as there is more or less ability in him who has acquired
 6 VI   |         station presupposes either ability or fortune, it is clear
 7 VI   |            those who, by their own ability and not through fortune,
 8 VI   |           could not have shown his ability had he not found the Athenians
 9 VI   |          fortunate, and their high ability enabled them to recognize
10 VI   |            in the ascent, yet with ability they will overcome them;
11 VI   |         prince. He was of so great ability, even as a private citizen,
12 VII  |         are men of great worth and ability, it is not reasonable to
13 VII  |         princes are men of so much ability that they know they have
14 VII  |           rising to be a prince by ability or fortune, I wish to adduce
15 VII  |        proper means and with great ability, from being a private person
16 VII  | foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards,
17 VII  |        solely on his own power and ability.~But Alexander died five
18 VII  |         the duke such boldness and ability, and he knew so well how
19 VIII |          his infamies with so much ability of mind and body that, having
20 XI   |         neither the desire nor the ability to alienate themselves.
21 XXI  |           show himself a patron of ability, and to honour the proficient
22 XXIII|          is not so through his own ability, but through the good advisers
23 XXVI |            as to make manifest the ability of Moses; that the Persians