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1 1 | hand, the works of greatest virtu which Historians indicate
2 1 | no sign of that ancient virtu remains, I cannot otherwise
3 1, I | not wonder that so much virtu had been maintained for
4 1, I | This is a case where the virtu and fortune of the builder
5 1, I | beginner was of greater or less virtu. The virtu of whom is recognized
6 1, I | greater or less virtu. The virtu of whom is recognized in
7 1, I | because it is seen here that virtu is greater where choice
8 1, I | and unable to exercise any virtu: that to obviate those which
9 1, I | maintained her full of so much virtu than any other republic
10 1, II | of the resemblance that virtu and vice have in this instance.~
11 1, II | leaving off from works of virtu they believed that Princes
12 1, IV | good fortune and military virtu had not supplied her defects,
13 1, IV | are so many examples of virtu, for good examples result
14 1, V | birth] nor in their own virtu, sought to attain those
15 1, VIII | Notwithstanding that the virtu of Furius Camillus when
16 1, IX | lost much of that ancient virtu, and consequently her power
17 1, X | and Republics, enemies of virtu, of letters, and of every
18 1, X | Republic, or who by fortune or virtu become Princes, if they
19 1, X | very great good fortune and virtu, which two things are found
20 1, X | their wealth, nobility and virtu exalted, he will see every
21 1, X | riches, honors, and above all virtu, accounted capital crimes.
22 1, XI | as he [Prince] fails in virtu. Whence it results that
23 1, XI | which depend solely on the virtu of one man, are not durable
24 1, XI | durable for long, because that virtu fails with the life of that
25 1, XII | been so powerful or of such virtu that she was able to occupy
26 1, XV | Samnites were defeated; for the virtu of the Romans, and the fear
27 1, XV | they were able to assume by virtu of their Religion and by
28 1, XV | and reestablish their lost virtu. Which fully testifies how
29 1, XVII | goodness together with his virtu will then keep them free:
30 1, XVII | Dion and Timoleon, whose virtu while they lived, kept that
31 1, XVII | it happens through the virtu of one man who is then living,
32 1, XVII | then living, and not by the virtu of the general public, that
33 1, XVII | at Thebes, which by the virtu of Epaminondas, while he
34 1, XVII | continuous successors of virtu do not restore it [the state],
35 1, XVIII | was not those who had more virtu, but those who had more
36 1, XVIII | powerful (no matter of how much virtu) abstained from asking from
37 1, XVIII | people no longer to regard virtu in bestowing the Consulship,
38 1, XIX | WEAK ONE~In considering the virtu and the mode of proceeding
39 1, XIX | Kings should reassume the virtu of Romulus, otherwise that
40 1, XIX | successor not having as much virtu as the first, is able to
41 1, XIX | who should reassume the virtu of the first one, that Kingdom
42 1, XIX | the other, are of great virtu, it will often be seen that
43 1, XIX | judgment, and so great was his virtu, that having conquered and
44 1, XIX | able happily to enjoy the virtu of his father. But he could
45 1, XIX | like his grandfather in virtu, or like his father in fortune,
46 1, XIX | this discussion that the virtu of Romulus was so great,
47 1, XX | SUCCESSIONS OF PRINCES OF VIRTU ACHIEVE GREAT RESULTS; AND
48 1, XX | NECESSITY HAVE SUCCESSIONS OF VIRTU; THEREFORE THEIR ACQUISITIONS
49 1, XX | excellent men, from whose virtu and fortune Rome had benefited
50 1, XX | successions of Princes of virtu are sufficient to acquire
51 1, XX | number of Princes of great virtu who are successors one after
52 1, XX | other: which succession of virtu is always well established
53 1, XXI | people: And such was his virtu that he was able quickly
54 1, XXI | hesitate (so great was their virtu) to put them under arms
55 1, XXIII | of their country and the virtu of so many men, as both
56 1, XXIII | in their armies, to the virtu and fortune of three of
57 1, XXIII | without being able to test the virtu of those remaining, they
58 1, XXIII | find very few Captians of virtu to have held similar passes
59 1, XXIV | very great, having by his virtu conquered the Curatii. None
60 1, XXIX | that Captain who by his virtu has conquered an Empire
61 1, XXIX | victory was not due to the virtu of that [Captain], but by
62 1, XXIX | Rome, and with the greatest virtu routed two armies of Vitellius
63 1, XXIX | Rome, so that through the virtu of Antonius, Mutianus, who
64 1, XXIX | knows with what industry and virtu Gonsalvo Ferrante, fighting
65 1, XXX | our times, and as those of virtu have done and still do.
66 1, XXX | every age so many men of virtu and adorned with various
67 1, XXXI | be able to operate with virtu. For instance, they sent
68 1, XXXIII | which have in them some virtu or are done by young men,
69 1, XXXIII | in him some extraordinary virtu, the eyes of all the Citizens
70 1, XXXIII | Pompey and the others for his virtu; which favor a little while
71 1, XXXVI | respectability or of such virtu, that his inexperience can
72 1, XLIII | there can never be so much virtu which would be enough to
73 1, XLIII | even an enemy of little virtu. And because this love cannot
74 1, XLIII | under the Ten had the same virtu as before: but because there
75 1, XLV | doctrine, prudence, and the virtu of his spirit) and among
76 1, LV | united, not only by his virtu, but by the institutions
77 1, LVI | intelligence which by natural virtu foresee future events, and
78 1, LVIII | at, for they desired his virtu, which had been such that
79 1, LVIII | verdict of all writers that virtu is lauded and admired even
80 1, LVIII | seem that by some hidden virtu, evil or good is foreseen.
81 1, LVIII | views, if they are of equal virtu, they do not take up the
82 1, LVIII | unobligated by them, more virtu will be observed in the
83 1, LX | they always went to find virtu, whether it was in young
84 1, LX | Consulship was the reward of virtu, not of blood. Which thing
85 1, LX | young man is of such great virtu as to have made himself
86 2 | which is gotten by their own virtu, but they also exaggerate
87 2 | toward the better through the virtu of that organizer. He who
88 2 | difference was, that where virtu first found a place in Assyria,
89 2 | world kept together all its virtu, none the less it is seen
90 2 | where people lived with virtu, as it was in the Kingdom
91 2 | yet possess in part, that virtu which is desired and lauded
92 2 | ours. And truly, if the virtu that then reigned and the
93 2 | evils] and imitate the [virtu] of the former, whenever
94 2, I | CHAPTER I~WHETHER VIRTU OR FORTUNE WAS THE GREATER
95 2, I | more by Fortune than by Virtu. And among other reasons
96 2, I | speak where he recounts [of] Virtu, without adding Fortune.
97 2, I | as Rome. For it was the virtu of the armies that enabled
98 2, I | the fortune and not the virtu of the Roman people; for
99 2, I | with Fortune a very great Virtu and Prudence. So that if
100 2, I | who would have that same Virtu as they had.~It would be
101 2, I | know better how much more Virtu enabled them to acquire
102 2, II | except for the excessive virtu [of the Romans]. For, from
103 2, II | should cause that a Tyrant of virtu should spring up, who by
104 2, II | who by his courage and virtu at arms expands his dominion,
105 2, II | and not in accordance with Virtu. For if they were to consider
106 2, II | without that rare and extreme virtu. And to give an example
107 2, II | unconquerable except by Roman virtu. And it is an easy thing
108 2, II | also able through their own virtu to become Princes. They
109 2, III | so that by retaining that virtu in the roots of that plant,
110 2, V | above, full of Religion and Virtu had its own customs and
111 2, VIII | perilous wars. And no little virtu was necessary to win them;
112 2, VIII | seen that when that Roman virtu was lost [and], those arms
113 2, XII | and that necessity makes virtu, as we have several times
114 2, XII | distant from home, for your virtu being in money and not in
115 2, XII | away his Kingdom. As much virtu as they showed in distant
116 2, XVI | equal in organization, in virtu, in obstinacy, and in numbers:
117 2, XVI | Roman army were of more virtu than those of the Latin
118 2, XVI | equal strength and of equal virtu, it was therefore necessary
119 2, XVI | partly chance and partly the virtu of the Consuls gave rise
120 2, XVI | have [pitted] against him a virtu three times as adept to
121 2, XVI | disorder, every half-way virtu, can take away the victory.
122 2, XVI | possible to use the ancient virtu.~
123 2, XVII | able to use or show their virtu as they were able to anciently.
124 2, XVII | Captains of acting with virtu.~I shall begin by speaking
125 2, XVII | are not able to show their virtu as they could anciently
126 2, XVII | if men do not show their virtu individually, it is not
127 2, XVII | the armies, which, lacking virtu collectively, are not able
128 2, XVII | according to the ancient virtu: For whoever wants to create
129 2, XVII | it resulted from no other virtu than from the unaccustomed
130 2, XVII | is mixed with the ancient virtu, but, without that, it is
131 2, XVIII | demonstrating how much greater virtu there is in the infantry
132 2, XVIII | Anthony saved himself with virtu. None the less, in this
133 2, XVIII | much more superior is the virtu of the infantry than that
134 2, XVIII | succeed, yet it not that the virtu of his infantry was not
135 2, XVIII | recognize this difference in virtu that exists between the
136 2, XIX | PROCEED ACCORDING TO ROMAN VIRTU, ARE THE RUIN AND NOT THE
137 2, XIX | much prudence and so much virtu, what then would it be to
138 2, XX | had defended with their virtu, it appearing to them that
139 2, XXII | both armies being of equal virtu) ought to be bloody for
140 2, XXII | according to its fortune and virtu; but that one which should
141 2, XXIV | as they were of another virtu, of another judgment, of
142 2, XXIV | the fortress, but on his virtu and prudence, he has held
143 2, XXIV | to destroy her: for the virtu of fortresses is seen in
144 2, XXIV | they reacquired through the virtu of the army. But let us
145 2, XXIV | to rely on] the personal virtu of their men to defend them, [
146 2, XXVII | Hannibal who had so much virtu and had his army intact,
147 2, XXVII | ought someone else with less virtu and less experience than
148 2, XXIX | where there was so much virtu, so much religion, and so
149 2, XXIX | the ability to work with virtu. Fortune indeed does this,
150 2, XXIX | of much spirit and much virtu, that he will recognize
151 2, XXX | FRIENDSHIP WITH MONEY, BUT WITH VIRTU AND REPUTATION OF STRENGTH~
152 2, XXX | but always through the virtu of their army. Which I do
153 2, XXX | for where men have little virtu, fortune greatly shows her
154 2, XXXI | err who, because of less virtu, allow themselves to be
155 2, XXXII | attributed rather to some occult virtu which he possessed, than
156 3, I | resume a new life and a new virtu, and should resume the observance
157 3, I | take more account of their virtu than of that convenience
158 3, I | then esteemed highly the virtu and goodness of Camillus
159 3, I | example and his deeds of virtu causes the same effect as
160 3, I | Republics either from the virtu of one man or from the virtu
161 3, I | virtu of one man or from the virtu of one institution. As to
162 3, I | to be kept alive by the virtu of one Citizen who will
163 3, I | results from the simple virtu of one man, without depending
164 3, I | by their rare examples of virtu produced almost the same
165 3, VI | taken, concealed with great virtu all the conspirators, and
166 3, VI | so much confidence in the virtu of Theodorus, that no one
167 3, VIII | man, it is seen how much virtu of the mind and body, and
168 3, VIII | a Citizen full of every virtu, and who publicly and privately
169 3, X | have an army of so much virtu that the enemy does not
170 3, X | less proof is given of your virtu. And if he [Philip] had
171 3, XI | superior, if he is of such virtu that he can resist the first
172 3, XI | having armed men of such virtu able to temporize with the
173 3, XII | Captains having recognized the virtu of such necessity, therefore,
174 3, XII | armed as you are: of equal virtu, you have the superiority
175 3, XIII | Republic grew more from the virtu of the Captains than of
176 3, XIII | marvelous proof of their virtu, and to have been better
177 3, XIII | was able through its own virtu not only to save itself,
178 3, XIII | be found where only the virtu of the soldiers won the
179 3, XIII | examples where only the virtu of the Captains produced
180 3, XIII | this is shown that double virtu that is so rare, that if
181 3, XV | themselves were the cause, the virtu of the soldiers was the
182 3, XVI | CHAPTER XVI~THAT TRUE VIRTU IS DIFFICULT TO FIND IN
183 3, XVI | EASY TIMES IT IS NOT MEN OF VIRTU THAT PREVAIL, BUT THOSE
184 3, XVI | their reputation which that virtu has given them, there are
185 3, XVI | their wealth and lack of virtu should not enable them to
186 3, XVI | always a place for men of virtu; nor could rank be taken
187 3, XVI | wanted it, not regarding virtu as much as the other qualities
188 3, XVIII | Centurion, through whose virtu that day the Roman army
189 3, XIX | accompanied by an excessive virtu, as was Manlius Torquatus:
190 3, XX | much people desired this virtu in great men, and how much
191 3, XXI | as long as he is a man of virtu, and that that virtu makes
192 3, XXI | of virtu, and that that virtu makes him reputed among
193 3, XXI | extremes by an excessive virtu, as did Hannibal and Scipio.
194 3, XXI | that reputation which his virtu gave him, that he kept his
195 3, XXI | there is in him such great virtu that it permits him to succeed
196 3, XXI | corrected by an extraordinary virtu. And if Scipio and Hannibal,
197 3, XXII | Corvinus, who, of equal virtu and of equal triumphs and
198 3, XXII | acquired them by equal virtu, but, as far as pertained
199 3, XXII | her back to her ancient virtu. And if one Republic should
200 3, XXII | avoided by an excessive virtu which is in you, and not
201 3, XXII | conclusion, that only the virtu of Manlius gave the victory
202 3, XXII | his being held a man of virtu: love will give him that
203 3, XXV | honor, and that merit and virtu could be found in any house
204 3, XXV | there is neither honor nor virtu where wealth does not flow.
205 3, XVII | hold the State by force and virtu, turn to similar expedients,
206 3, XXX | when, by his goodness and virtu, he has extinguished envy;
207 3, XXX | he believes can, by his virtu, liberate him; as happened
208 3, XXX | propitious to that man of virtu as to make them die naturally,
209 3, XXX | and may then display his virtu without any obstacle and
210 3, XXXI | that they obtained to that virtu which they will never know:
211 3, XXXI | against a reverse]. This virtu and this vice which I say
212 3, XXXI | think they gained by that virtu which they did not have),
213 3, XXXI | there had been any kind of virtu in Venice and in their institutions,
214 3, XXXI | to make a test of their virtu and the power of fortune,
215 3, XXXI | fortune, and not on their own virtu, they will change with changes
216 3, XXXIII | things be accompanied by virtu, otherwise they are of no
217 3, XXXIII | turned out showed that true virtu does not fear every least
218 3, XXXIII | battle line. For a real virtu, a good organization, a
219 3, XXXIII | of the Consuls, but the virtu of the soldiers themselves
220 3, XXXIII | were saved by their own virtu. I do not want to omit an
221 3, XXXIV | consumed if the individual virtu of that man who is to be
222 3, XXXIV | extraordinarily and with so much virtu, and because of this act
223 3, XXXVI | discipline there arises ardor and virtu, like that of the Romans:
224 3, XXXVI | impulse, not because of virtu. But where virtu is disciplined,
225 3, XXXVI | because of virtu. But where virtu is disciplined, it employs
226 3, XXXVI | sustained by a well regulated virtu, and not having anything
227 3, XXXVI | with the same courage and virtu at the end as at the beginning [
228 3, XXXVI | proof of not having any virtu. And as everyone knows from
229 3, XXXVIII| enemies, recalling to them the virtu of his soldiers and his
230 3, XLII | quickly doing some act of virtu which counteracts it: the
231 3, XLIII | any other similar vice or virtu. And whoever reads of past
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