Chapter 6
The greatest difficulty for the founder: nothing is more difficult or doubtful of success than to introduce a new order of things.
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From The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
New principalities are hardest to hold; difficulties arise because men change rulers willingly, expecting to better their condition, and new orders create enemies of all who benefited from the old.
Chapter 3
On mixed principalities: Machiavelli's analysis of Louis XII's errors in Italy and the maxim that war cannot be avoided but only deferred to one's disadvantage.
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On holding cities accustomed to living under their own laws: the surest path is to destroy them, for they never forget their lost liberty.
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