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Discourses Oxford World's Classics (Bondanella) — BOOK3
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CHAPTER 1 — In Order for a Religion or a Republic to Have a Long Life, It Is Often Necessary to Bring It Back to Its Beginnings (.md)
CHAPTER 2 — How Very Wise It Is to Pretend to Be Mad at the Proper Moment (.md)
CHAPTER 3 — How Necessary It Is to Kill the Sons of Brutus in Order to Maintain a Newly Acquired Liberty (.md)
CHAPTER 4 — A Prince Cannot Live in Safety in a Principality While Those Whom He Deprived of It Are Still Alive (.md)
CHAPTER 9 — That It Is Necessary for Those Who Wish Always to Enjoy Good Fortune to Change With the Times (.md)
CHAPTER 5 — What Causes a King to Lose a Kingdom of the Hereditary Kind (.md)
CHAPTER 6 — On Conspiracies * (.md)
CHAPTER 7 — Why Changes from Liberty to Servitude and from Servitude to Liberty Are Sometimes Without Bloodshed and Sometimes Full of It (.md)
CHAPTER 8 — Anyone Wishing to Alter a Republic Must Consider Its Basic Material (.md)
CHAPTER 10 — That a Commander Cannot Avoid a Battle When His Opponent Insists on Fighting Under Any Circumstances (.md)
CHAPTER 11 — That Anyone Who Has to Fight Many Enemies, Although He Is Inferior in Numbers, May Yet Win the Victory If He Can Withstand the First Onslaught (.md)
CHAPTER 12 — Why a Prudent Commander Must Impose on His Troops the Absolute Necessity to Fight, While Taking It Away from Those of the Enemy (.md)
CHAPTER 13 — Where Should One Place More Trust, in a Good Commander With a Weak Army, or in a Good Army With a Weak Commander? (.md)
CHAPTER 14 — What Effects Are Produced by the Strange Contrivances that Appear and the Strange Sounds that Are Heard in the Midst of a Battle (.md)
CHAPTER 19 — Whether Deference or Punishment Is More Necessary to Restrain a Multitude (.md)
CHAPTER 40 — Why Employing Deceit in Waging a War Is a Glorious Thing (.md)
CHAPTER 41 — That One’s Native Land Must Be Defended Either With Shame or With Glory, and Is Well Defended in Either Way (.md)
CHAPTER 42 — That Promises Exacted by Force Need Not Be Kept (.md)
CHAPTER 43 — That Men Born in One Province Display Almost the Same Nature in Every Age (.md)
CHAPTER 44 — That One Often Obtains Through Impetuosity and Audacity What Would Never Be Obtained Through Ordinary Methods (.md)
CHAPTER 49 — If a Republic Is to Be Kept Free, Each Day It Requires New Measures; and the Good Qualities for Which Quinctius Fabius Was Called Maximus (.md)
CHAPTER 45 — Whether It Is a Better Policy in Battles to Sustain the Enemy’s Attack and Then to Counter-attack After Doing So; or to Assault Him Violently from the First (.md)
CHAPTER 46 — How It Happens That a Family Maintains the Same Customs in a City Over a Long Period of Time (.md)
CHAPTER 47 — That a Good Citizen Ought to Forget Private Injuries for Love of His Country (.md)
CHAPTER 48 — When an Enemy Is Seen Committing a Gross Error, It Should Be Assumed that There Is a Trick Behind It (.md)
CHAPTER 15 — That One Man and Not Many Should Be Placed in Command of an Army, and How More Than One Commander Is Harmful (.md)
CHAPTER 16 — True Ability Is Sought in Difficult Times, and in Easy Ones, Men With Wealth or From Good Families, Rather Than Men of Ability, Find More Favour (.md)
CHAPTER 17 — That You Should Not Offend a Man and Then Appoint Him to an Important Governmental Post (.md)
CHAPTER 18 — Nothing Is More Worthy of a Commander Than to Anticipate the Decisions of the Enemy (.md)
CHAPTER 20 — One Example of Humanity Towards the Inhabitants of Falerii Achieved More Than Any Use of Roman Power (.md)
CHAPTER 21 — How It Came About that Hannibal, With a Different Mode of Conduct from that of Scipio, Achieved the Same Results in Italy that Scipio Achieved in Spain (.md)
CHAPTER 22 — How the Hardness of Manlius Torquatus and the Humaneness of Valerius Corvinus Acquired for Each Man the Same Glory (.md)
CHAPTER 23 — Why Camillus Was Driven Out of Rome (.md)
CHAPTER 24 — The Prolongation of Military Commands Enslaved Rome (.md)
CHAPTER 29 — That the Faults of Peoples Begin With Their Princes (.md)
CHAPTER 25 — On the Poverty of Cincinnatus and Many Roman Citizens (.md)
CHAPTER 26 — How a State Is Ruined Because of Women (.md)
CHAPTER 27 — How to Unify a Divided City, and Why the Opinion that It Is Necessary to Keep Cities Divided in Order to Hold Them Is Not True (.md)
CHAPTER 28 — That One Must Pay Attention to the Deeds of Citizens, Because a Worthy Act Often Conceals the Beginnings of Tyranny (.md)
CHAPTER 30 — That a Citizen in His Own Republic Who Wishes to Employ His Authority for Some Good Work Must First Extinguish Envy; and How to Organize the Defence of a City When the Enemy Is Coming (.md)
CHAPTER 31 — Strong Republics and Excellent Men Retain in Every Kind of Fortune the Same Spirit and Dignity (.md)
CHAPTER 32 — What Methods Some Have Used to Disturb a Peace (.md)
CHAPTER 33 — To Win a Battle, It Is Necessary to Make an Army Confident, Both in Itself and in Its Commander (.md)
CHAPTER 34 — What Kind of Fame, Rumour, or Opinion Makes the People Begin to Favour One Citizen; and Whether the People Assign Magistracies With Greater Prudence Than a Prince (.md)
CHAPTER 39 — A Commander Must Be Knowledgeable About Localities (.md)
CHAPTER 35 — What Risks Are Run in Making Oneself the Leader by Counselling an Undertaking; and How Much Greater the Risks Are When the Undertaking Is an Extraordinary One (.md)
CHAPTER 36 — The Reasons Why the French Have Been and Are Still Considered More Than Men at the Outset of a Battle and, Later on, Less Than Women (.md)
CHAPTER 37 — Whether Small Skirmishes Before the Battle Are Necessary; and What Must Be Done to Understand a New Enemy in Order To Avoid Them (.md)
CHAPTER 38 — What a Commander Should Be Like to Gain the Trust of the Army (.md)