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Opening Credits
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A Note on the Translation
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Chronology
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Dedicatory Letter
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I. How Many Are the Kinds of Principalities and in What Modes They Are Acquired
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II. Of Hereditary Principalities
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III. Of Mixed Principalities
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IV. Why the Kingdom of Darius Which Alexander Seized Did Not Rebel from His Successors after Alexander’s Death
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V. How Cities or Principalities Which Lived by Their Own Laws before They Were Occupied Should Be Administered
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VI. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired through One’s Own Arms and Virtue
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VII. Of New Principalities That Are Acquired by Others’ Arms and Fortune
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VIII. Of Those Who Have Attained a Principality through Crimes
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IX. Of the Civil Principality
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X. In What Mode the Forces of All Principalities Should Be Measured
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XI. Of Ecclesiastical Principalities
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XII. How Many Kinds of Military There Are and Concerning Mercenary Soldiers
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XIII. Of Auxiliary, Mixed, and One’s Own Soldiers
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XIV. What a Prince Should Do Regarding the Military
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XV. Of Those Things for Which Men and Especially Princes Are Praised or Blamed
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XVI. Of Liberality and Parsimony
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XVII. Of Cruelty and Mercy, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared, or the Contrary
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XVIII. In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes
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XIX. Of Avoiding Contempt and Hatred
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XX. Whether Fortresses and Many Other Things Which Are Made and Done by Princes Every Day Are Useful or Useless
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XXI. What a Prince Should Do to Be Held in Esteem
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XXII. Of Those Whom Princes Have as Secretaries
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XXIII. In What Mode Flatterers Are to Be Avoided
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XXIV. Why the Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States
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XXV. How Much Fortune Can Do in Human Affairs, and in What Mode It May Be Opposed
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XXVI. Exhortation to Seize Italy and to Free Her from the Barbarians
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Appendix; Machiavelli’s Letter of December 10, 1513
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Ending Credits
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