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IntroductionDedication1. Chapter I - How Many Kinds of Principalities There Are, and By What Means They Are Acquired2. Chapter II - Concerning Hereditary Principalities3. Chapter III - Concerning Mixed Principalities4. Chapter IV - Why Kingdom of Darius, Did Not Rebel Against Successors of Alexander At His Death5. Chapter V - Concerning Way to Govern Cities Which Lived Under Their Own Laws Before They Were Annexed6. Chapter VI - Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms and Ability7. Chapter VII - Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By Arms of Others Or By Good Fortune8. Chapter VIII - Concerning Those Who Have Obtained a Principality By Wickedness9. Chapter IX - Concerning A Civil Principality10. Chapter X - Concerning The Way in Which The Strength of All Principalities Ought to Be Measured11. Chapter XI - Concerning Ecclesiastical Principalities12. Chapter XII - How Many Kinds of Soldiery There Are, and Concerning Mercenaries13. Chapter XIII - Concerning Auxiliaries, Mixed Soldiery, and One's Own14. Chapter XIV - That Which Concerns A Prince On the Subject of The Art of War15. Chapter XV - Concerning Things for Which Men, and Especially Princes, are Praised Or Blamed16. Chapter XVI - Concerning Liberality and Meanness17. Chapter XVII - Concerning Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared18. Chapter XVIII - Concerning The Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith19. Chapter XIX - That One Should Avoid Being Despised and Hated20. Chapter XX - Are Fortresses and Other Things to Which Princes Often Resort, Advantageous Or Hurtful?21. Chapter XXI - How A Prince Should Conduct Himself So As to Gain Renown22. Chapter XXII - Concerning The Secretaries of Princes23. Chapter XXIII - How Flatterers Should Be Avoided24. Chapter XXIV - Why The Princes of Italy Have Lost Their States25. Chapter XXV - What Fortune Can Effect in Human Affairs and How to Withstand Her26. Chapter XXVI - An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from The Barbarians