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The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

4. Without doubt princes become great when they overcome the

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difficulties and obstacles by which they are confronted, and therefore fortune, especially when she desires to make a new prince great, who has a greater necessity to earn renown than an hereditary one, causes enemies to arise and form designs against him, in order that he may have the opportunity of overcoming them, and by them to mount higher, as by a ladder which his enemies have raised. For this reason many consider that a wise prince, when he has the opportunity, ought with craft to foster some animosity against himself, so that, having crushed it, his renown may rise higher.
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1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION 3. CHAPTER XXVI. AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS 4. INTRODUCTION 5. CHAPTER I. 6. CHAPTER II. 7. CHAPTER III. 8. CHAPTER IV. 9. CHAPTER V. 10. CHAPTER VI. 11. introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for 12. CHAPTER VII. 13. CHAPTER VIII. 14. CHAPTER IX. 15. CHAPTER X. 16. CHAPTER XI. 17. CHAPTER XII. 18. CHAPTER XIII. 19. CHAPTER XIV. 20. CHAPTER XV. 21. CHAPTER XVI. 22. CHAPTER XVII. 23. CHAPTER XVIII.[1] 24. CHAPTER XIX. 25. CHAPTER XX. 26. 1. Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their 27. 2. There never was a new prince who has disarmed his subjects; rather 28. 3. Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed 29. 4. Without doubt princes become great when they overcome the 30. 5. Princes, especially new ones, have found more fidelity and 31. 6. It has been a custom with princes, in order to hold their states 32. CHAPTER XXI. 33. CHAPTER XXII. 34. CHAPTER XXIII. 35. CHAPTER XXIV. 36. CHAPTER XXV. 37. CHAPTER XXVI.

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