The Prince

The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli, italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer (1469-1527)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- DEDICATION
-03- OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF PRINCEDOM, AND OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY ARE ACQUIRED
-04- OF HEREDITARY PRINCEDOMS
-05- OF MIXED PRINCEDOMS
-06- THE KINGDOM OF DARIUS
-07- HOW CITIES OR PROVINCES ARE TO BE GOVERNED
-08- OF NEW PRINCEDOMS WHICH A PRINCE ACQUIRES WITH HIS OWN ARMS AND BY MERIT
-09- OF NEW PRINCEDOMS ACQUIRED BY THE AID OF OTHERS AND BY GOOD FORTUNE
-10- OF THOSE WHO BY THEIR CRIMES COME TO BE PRINCES
-11- OF THE CIVIL PRINCEDOM
-12- HOW THE STRENGTH OF ALL PRINCEDOMS SHOULD BE MEASURED
-13- OF ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCEDOMS
-14- HOW MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF SOLDIERS THERE ARE, AND OF MERCENARIES
-15- OF AUXILIARY, MIXED, AND NATIONAL ARMS
-16- OF THE DUTY OF A PRINCE IN RESPECT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS
-17- OF THE QUALITIES IN RESPECT OF WHICH MEN, AND MOST OF ALL PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OR BLAMED
-18- OF LIBERALITY AND MISERLINESS
-19- OF CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED OR FEARED
-20- HOW PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH
-21- THAT A PRINCE SHOULD SEEK TO ESCAPE CONTEMPT AND HATRED
-22- CERTAIN EXPEDIENTS ARE PROFITABLE OR HURTFUL
-23- HOW A PRINCE SHOULD BEAR HIMSELF SO AS TO ACQUIRE REPUTATION
-24- OF THE SECRETARIES OF PRINCES
-25- THAT FLATTERERS SHOULD BE SHUNNED
-26- WHY THE PRINCES OF ITALY HAVE LOST THEIR STATES
-27- WHAT FORTUNE CAN EFFECT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS, AND HOW SHE MAY BE WITHSTOOD
-28- AN EXHORTATION TO LIBERATE ITALY FROM THE BARBARIANS