Book,  Chapter

 1       2,  XVII|      against the French, and the fortress being still held by the
 2       2,  XVII|      road that descends from the fortress to the City with artillery,
 3       2,  XVII|         forced to go out of your fortress and come to battle. This
 4       2,  XXIV|        excite them so, that that fortress which is the reason for
 5       2,  XXIV|       result has shown that that fortress was harmful and not a security
 6       2,  XXIV|     assaulted them: nor did that fortress defend them, nor did they
 7       2,  XXIV|  friendly subjects and without a fortress, than with hostile subjects,
 8       2,  XXIV|   hostile subjects, and with the fortress, which do you no good in
 9       2,  XXIV|       lost State, where only the fortress remains to you, it behooves
10       2,  XXIV|        even more [easily] if the fortress did not exist, and so much
11       2,  XXIV|          the pride of having the fortress. And from experience it
12       2,  XXIV|          has been seen that this fortress of Milan was of no usefulness
13       2,  XXIV| Bentivogli from Bologna, built a fortress in that City, and afterwards
14       2,  XXIV|        the Pope quickly lost the fortress; and thus the fortress did
15       2,  XXIV|       the fortress; and thus the fortress did him no good, but injury,
16       2,  XXIV|    having recovered it, he had a fortress built stronger than all
17       2,  XXIV|     rebelled notwithstanding the fortress, and Ottaviano Fregoso seized
18       2,  XXIV|        founding his State on the fortress, but on his virtu and prudence,
19       2,  XXIV|      that the destruction of the fortress did no more harm Ottaviano,
20       2,  XXIV|        recover Genoa without the fortress being there; but without
21       2,  XXIV|       Genoa even though he had a fortress there. For him, therefore,
22       2,  XXIV|         the test better than the fortress.~I conclude, therefore,
23       2,  XXIV|         hold one’s own country a fortress is injurious and to hold
24       2,  XXIV|          if there had not been a fortress: for although Fabius had
25       2,  XXIV|         had not been this means [fortress], he would have used other
26       2,  XXIV|        know of what usefulness a fortress may be, if in the recovery
27       2,  XXIV|         Capua where there was no fortress, and which they reacquired
28       2,  XXIV|        rebellion, that while the fortress remains in your power (the
29       2,  XXIV|         the town by means of the fortress. The fortress of Brescia,
30       2,  XXIV|       means of the fortress. The fortress of Brescia, therefore, (
31       2,  XXIV|        regardless of the City or fortress which they leave behind,
32       3,  VI  |          themselves lords of the fortress; but as the castellan did
33       3,  XLIV|        send him the keys to [the fortress which guarded] that pass.