Book, Chapter
1 1, I | case where the virtu and fortune of the builder of the edifice
2 1, II | knowing the changeability of fortune [for] never having experienced
3 1, II | having experienced bad [fortune], and not wanting to remain
4 1, II | Rome did not attain top fortune, it attained the second;
5 1, II | government. And so favorable was fortune to them that although they
6 1, IV | confusion, that if good fortune and military virtu had not
7 1, IV | Republic.~I cannot deny that fortune and the military were the
8 1, IV | rarely there may not be good fortune accompanying. But let us
9 1, VIII | bad management or his bad fortune, that the fall of that City
10 1, X | in a Republic, or who by fortune or virtu become Princes,
11 1, X | him were corrupted by his fortune and frightened by the long
12 1, X | from their very great good fortune and virtu, which two things
13 1, XI | good ordinances make good fortune, and from good fortune there
14 1, XI | good fortune, and from good fortune there arises the happy successes
15 1, XVII | was therefore a great good fortune for Rome that no sooner
16 1, XIX | favored by the greatest good fortune, having the first King most
17 1, XIX | virtu, or like his father in fortune, remained heir to the sixth
18 1, XIX | according as the times and fortune may turn his way; but he
19 1, XX | men, from whose virtu and fortune Rome had benefited from
20 1, XXII | should never risk all his fortune with only part of his forces.
21 1, XXIII | TO PUT IN PERIL ALL HIS FORTUNE AND ALL HIS FORCES; AND
22 1, XXIII | into peril all of one’s fortune or all of one’s forces.
23 1, XXIII | when they committed all the fortune of their country and the
24 1, XXIII | armies, to the virtu and fortune of three of their Citizens,
25 1, XXIII | thus you have lost all your fortune with only part of your forces.~
26 1, XXIX | and puts no limits on the fortune of anyone, it is not impossible
27 1, XXXVII | bloodshed and changes of fortune, the Nobility remained superior.
28 1, LIII | comes, they do not blame fortune or the impotence of those
29 1, LV | addition to the above mentioned fortune, also command castles, and
30 1, LVI | been predicted either by fortune tellers, by revelations,
31 2 | number of writers so obey the fortune of the winners that, in
32 2 | for themselves because of fortune), there arises a continuous
33 2 | of the former, whenever fortune should give them the opportunity.
34 2 | malignity of the times and of fortune, he has not been able to
35 2, I | CHAPTER I~WHETHER VIRTU OR FORTUNE WAS THE GREATER CAUSE FOR
36 2, I | Empire were favored more by Fortune than by Virtu. And among
37 2, I | ascribed all their victories to Fortune, as they had built more
38 2, I | had built more temples to Fortune than to any other God. And
39 2, I | of] Virtu, without adding Fortune. Which thing I do not in
40 2, I | same time was due to the fortune and not the virtu of the
41 2, I | conducted, will see mixed with Fortune a very great Virtu and Prudence.
42 2, I | the cause of that [good] fortune, he will easily find it,
43 2, I | believe that the [good] Fortune which the Romans had in
44 2, I | that they had less need of Fortune, than those people who do
45 2, I | acquire that Empire than did Fortune, in the following chapter
46 2, X | was constrained to try the fortune of battle. So that for this
47 2, X | of money, had to try the fortune of battle, that which happened
48 2, X | more honorable, and where fortune can in some way favor you.
49 2, X | him at once and try the fortune of battle, rather than wait
50 2, X | prudent Captains, and good fortune: where examining whether
51 2, XII | forces but not all your fortune; but taking yourself to
52 2, XII | distance you risk all your fortune but not all your strength.
53 2, XIII | FROM THE BOTTOM TO A GREAT FORTUNE MORE BY FRAUD THAN BY FORCE~
54 2, XIII | happens that men of little fortune come to high rank without
55 2, XIII | the lowest, or rather low, fortune have arrived either to a
56 2, XIII | will ever be found of such fortune to have arrived at great
57 2, XVI | an engagement, must have fortune inimical to him three times
58 2, XVI | they all share the same fortune: And as many, to excuse
59 2, XVIII | as Captains [Soldiers] of fortune, whose main thought was
60 2, XXII | or lose according to its fortune and virtu; but that one
61 2, XXIII | desire for any change of fortune. Which is entirely understood,
62 2, XXIV | of our times, by the same fortune as field campaigns [have
63 2, XXVII | liberty] to the discretion of fortune, as this was their last
64 2, XXIX | CHAPTER XXIX~FORTUNE BLINDS THE MINDS OF MEN
65 2, XXIX | troubles, concludes by saying: Fortune thus blinds the minds, when
66 2, XXIX | ability to work with virtu. Fortune indeed does this, when she
67 2, XXIX | be clearly recognized how fortune, in order to make Rome greater
68 2, XXIX | histories) that men can second fortune but not oppose her, they
69 2, XXIX | no matter in what [ill] fortune or trouble they find themselves.~
70 2, XXX | arrived with his army, which fortune caused (as the historian
71 2, XXX | where men have little virtu, fortune greatly shows her power,
72 3, II | makes you enjoy the good fortune of that Prince with him,
73 3, III | judged by the results (if fortune and life would stay with
74 3, VI | prudent and have great good fortune, that in conducting a conspiracy,
75 3, VI | and overwhelmed by bad fortune, how much more is it to
76 3, VI | success, according to their fortune. Cataline, mentioned before
77 3, IX | IF HE WANTS TO HAVE GOOD FORTUNE ALWAYS~I have many times
78 3, IX | to err less and have good fortune, is he who suits the times (
79 3, IX | Roman audacity, and his good fortune was that his method well
80 3, IX | have experienced better fortune than to have a Captain who,
81 3, IX | vitality and a longer good fortune than a Principality, for
82 3, IX | whence it happens that fortune varies in a man, as it varies
83 3, X | Prince would rather try the fortune of battle than to lengthen
84 3, X | enemy, he decided to try the fortune of battle, and thus came
85 3, X | No one should commit his fortune against a host, which time
86 3, X | mad if he does not try the fortune [of battle] before such
87 3, XXX | those who have it: and when fortune is so propitious to that
88 3, XXX | does not have such good fortune, he must think of every
89 3, XXX | goodness, with his good fortune, and by benefiting some,
90 3, XXX | goodness is not enough, fortune changes, and malignity does
91 3, XXXI | COURAGE AND DIGNITY IN ANY FORTUNE~Among the other admirable
92 3, XXXI | are always the same in any fortune; and if it should change,
93 3, XXXI | everyone easily knows that fortune does not have power over
94 3, XXXI | vain and inebriated by good fortune, they attribute all the
95 3, XXXI | there is a sudden change of fortune, as soon as they come face
96 3, XXXI | having ill used that good fortune, are unprepared for any
97 3, XXXI | and the Venetians.~No ill fortune ever made the Romans become
98 3, XXXI | become abject, nor did good fortune ever make them become insolent,
99 3, XXXI | Venetians, who, in good fortune (which they seemed to think
100 3, XXXI | one. Afterwards, when good fortune abandoned them, and they
101 3, XXXI | shown a new face to their fortune, and would have been in
102 3, XXXI | becoming insolent in good fortune, and abject in bad, arises
103 3, XXXI | better, less joyful in good fortune, and less depressed in bad [
104 3, XXXI | and less depressed in bad [fortune]. And that which is said
105 3, XXXI | their virtu and the power of fortune, it will always happen that
106 3, XXXI | only on the vagaries of fortune, and not on their own virtu,
107 3, XXXI | will change with changes of fortune, and will give of themselves
108 3, XXXIII | the Romans because of the fortune of the place. And although
109 3, XXXIII | see the enemy, trusting to fortune, placed on the Allia; and
110 3, XXXVII | unless you are aided by fortune in a way that she, with
111 3, XXXVII | where he risks his entire fortune, is a completely foolhardy
112 3, XXXVIII| been led by ambition or fortune) to have been taken away
113 3, XLI | either in good or adverse fortune, because, whether he wins
114 3, XLII | value. And so favorable was fortune to Posthumius in this case,
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