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Discourses Oxford World's Classics (Bondanella) — BOOK1
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CHAPTER 1 — What the Beginnings of Cities Have Always Been, and What the Beginnings of Rome Were Like (.md)
CHAPTER 2 — How Many Kinds of Republics There Are, and What Kind the Roman Republic Was (.md)
CHAPTER 3 — The Circumstances that Caused the Creation of the Tribunes of the Plebeians, Making the Republic More Perfect (.md)
CHAPTER 4 — How the Division Between the Plebeians and the Roman Senate Made That Republic Free and Powerful (.md)
CHAPTER 9 — That a Man Must Be Alone If He Wishes to Organize a New Republic or Completely to Reform Its Ancient Institutions (.md)
CHAPTER 50 — No One Council or Magistrate Should Be Capable of Blocking Legal Actions in Cities (.md)
CHAPTER 51 — A Republic or a Prince Should Seem to Do Out of Generosity What Must Be Done Out of Necessity (.md)
CHAPTER 52 — There Is No More Secure and Less Divisive Means of Restraining the Insolence of a Man Who Rises to Power in a Republic Than to Be the First to Occupy the Paths Through Which He May Come into Such Power (.md)
CHAPTER 53 — The People, Deceived by a False Kind of Good, Often Desire Their Own Ruin, and How Great Hopes and Bold Promises Easily Move Them (.md)
CHAPTER 54 — How Much Authority a Serious Man Possesses in Restraining a Multitude (.md)
CHAPTER 59 — Which Confederation or Other Kind of League Is Most Reliable, That Created With a Republic or That Created With a Prince (.md)
CHAPTER 55 — How Easily Affairs Are Conducted in a City Where the Populace Is Not Corrupted; and That Where Equality Exists, a Principality Cannot Be Created, and Where No Equality Exists, a Republic Cannot Be Created (.md)
CHAPTER 56 — Before Important Events Happen in a City or a Province, Signs that Foretell Them or Men Who Predict Them Appear (.md)
CHAPTER 57 — United the People Are Courageous, but Divided They Are Weak (.md)
CHAPTER 58 — The Multitude Is Wiser and More Constant Than a Prince (.md)
CHAPTER 60 — How the Consulate and Every Other Magistracy in Rome Were Bestowed Without Respect to Age (.md)
CHAPTER 5 — Whether the Guardianship of Liberty May Be More Securely Lodged in the People or in the Upper Classes; and Who Has More Reason to Create an Uprising, He Who Wishes to Acquire or He Who Wishes to Maintain (.md)
CHAPTER 6 — Whether in Rome It Was Possible to Organize a Government that Could Do Away with the Enmities Between the People and the Senate (.md)
CHAPTER 7 — To What Degree Public Indictments Are Necessary in a Republic to Maintain Its Liberty (.md)
CHAPTER 8 — False Accusations Are As Harmful to Republics As Public Indictments Are Useful (.md)
CHAPTER 10 — The Founders of a Republic or a Kingdom Deserve As Much Praise As Those Who Found a Tyranny Deserve Blame (.md)
CHAPTER 11 — On the Religion of the Romans (.md)
CHAPTER 12 — How Important It Is to Take Account of Religion, and How Italy, Lacking in Religion Thanks to the Roman Church, Has Been Ruined (.md)
CHAPTER 13 — How the Romans Made Use of Religion to Reorganize Their City, to Carry Out Their Enterprises, and to Quell Disturbances (.md)
CHAPTER 14 — The Romans Interpreted the Auspices According to Necessity, and They Prudently Made a Show of Observing Religion Even When They Were Forced Not to Observe It; and If Anyone Dared to Disparage It, They Punished Him (.md)
CHAPTER 19 — After an Excellent Prince, a Weak Prince Can Maintain Himself; but After a Weak Prince, No Kingdom Can Be Maintained With Another Weak One (.md)
CHAPTER 40 — The Creation of the Decemvirate in Rome and What Is Noteworthy About It; Including, Among Many Other Matters, the Consideration of How the Same Circumstances May Either Save or Destroy a Republic (.md)
CHAPTER 41 — To Jump from Humility to Arrogance and from Mercy to Cruelty Without the Appropriate Measures Is an Imprudent and Unprofitable Affair (.md)
CHAPTER 42 — How Easily Men May Be Corrupted (.md)
CHAPTER 43 — Those Who Fight for Their Own Glory Are Good and Faithful Soldiers (.md)
CHAPTER 44 — A Crowd Is Ineffective Without a Leader; and How One Should Not Make Threats First and Then Request Authority (.md)
CHAPTER 49 — If Those Cities Which Had Free Beginnings Like Rome Experience Difficulty in Finding Laws Which Maintain Them, Those Which Were Servile at the Outset Will Find It Almost Impossible to Do So (.md)
CHAPTER 45 — It Is a Bad Example Not to Observe a Law that Has Been Passed, Especially on the Part of Its Author; and It Is Extremely Harmful to the Ruler of a City to Open New Wounds Every Day (.md)
CHAPTER 46 — Men Rise from One Ambition to Another; and First They Seek to Avoid Injury, Then They Injure Others (.md)
CHAPTER 47 — Although Men May Deceive Themselves in General Questions, They Do Not Do So in the Particulars (.md)
CHAPTER 48 — Anyone Wishing to Prevent a Magistracy from Being Given to a Man of Humble Birth or to an Evil Man Should Have It Requested Either by a Man Who Is Too Humbly Born and Evil or by One Who Is Too Noble and Too Good (.md)
CHAPTER 15 — The Samnites Turned to Religion As a Last Resort in Times of Misfortune (.md)
CHAPTER 16 — A People Accustomed to Living Under a Prince Maintains Its Freedom With Difficulty If, by Some Accident, It Becomes Free (.md)
CHAPTER 17 — A Corrupt People Which Becomes Free Can Remain So Only With the Greatest Difficulty (.md)
CHAPTER 18 — How a Free Government Can Be Maintained in Corrupt Cities If One Already Exists, or, If One Does Not Already Exist, How to Establish It (.md)
CHAPTER 20 — Two Continuous Successions of Able Princes Produce Great Results; and Since Well-Organized Republics Necessarily Have a Succession of Able Rulers, Their Acquisitions and Growth Are Also Great (.md)
CHAPTER 21 — How Much Blame a Prince or a Republic Which Lacks Its Own Armed Forces Deserves (.md)
CHAPTER 22 — What Is Notable in the Case of the Three Roman Horatii and the Three Alban Curiatii (.md)
CHAPTER 23 — That One Should Not Jeopardize All of One’s Fortune or All of One’s Forces; and, for This Reason, Defending Passes Is Often Dangerous (.md)
CHAPTER 24 — Well-Organized Republics Establish Rewards and Punishments for Their Citizens but Never Compensate One With the Other (.md)
CHAPTER 29 — Who Is More Ungrateful, a People or a Prince? (.md)
CHAPTER 25 — Whoever Wishes to Reform a Long-Established State in a Free City Should Retain At Least the Appearance of Its Ancient Ways (.md)
CHAPTER 26 — A New Prince, in a City or Province He Has Seized, Must Create Everything Anew (.md)
CHAPTER 27 — Men Very Rarely Know How to Be Entirely Good or Entirely Bad (.md)
CHAPTER 28 — Why the Romans Were Less Ungrateful to Their Citizens Than the Athenians (.md)
CHAPTER 30 — What Means a Prince or a Republic May Employ to Avoid the Vice of Ingratitude; and What Means a Commander or a Citizen May Employ in Order to Avoid Being Overcome by It (.md)
CHAPTER 31 — Why Roman Commanders Were Never Excessively Punished for Errors They Committed, Nor Were They Ever Punished When Their Ignorance or Poor Decisions Resulted in Harm to the Republic (.md)
CHAPTER 32 — A Republic or a Prince Should Not Delay in Rewarding Men Even in Situations of Necessity (.md)
CHAPTER 33 — When a Problem Has Arisen Either Within a State or Outside It, It Is Safer To Delay Dealing With It Than to Attack It (.md)
CHAPTER 34 — Dictatorial Authority Did Good, Not Harm, to the Roman Republic; and How Authority Citizens Take for Themselves, Not That Which Is Granted Them Through Free Elections, Is Harmful to Civic Life (.md)
CHAPTER 39 — The Same Circumstances Are Often Seen Among Different Peoples (.md)
CHAPTER 35 — The Reason Why the Creation of the Decemvirate in Rome Was Harmful to the Liberty of That Republic, Notwithstanding the Fact that It Was Created by Free and Public Elections (.md)
CHAPTER 36 — Citizens Who Have Held the Highest Offices Should Not Disdain the Lesser Ones (.md)
CHAPTER 37 — What Discord Arose in Rome From the Agrarian Laws; and How Absolutely Outrageous It Is for a Republic to Pass a Retroactive Law Which Is Contrary to an Ancient Custom of the City (.md)
CHAPTER 38 — Weak Republics Are Indecisive and Do Not Know How to Reach Decisions; If They Ever Do Take Sides, This Arises More by Necessity Than by Choice (.md)