𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐈𝐈 — 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐈𝐗𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒
*"(D)ifficulties occur in a new principality... (C)hiefly from an inherent difficulty which there is in all new principalities; wherein [the people] are deceived, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad to worse. In this way you have enemies in all those whom you have injured in seizing that principality... (A)lthough one may be very strong in armed forces... one has always need of the goodwill of the natives. (W)hen states are acquired in a country differing in language, customs, or laws, there are difficulties, and good fortune and great energy are needed to hold them, and one of the greatest and most real helps would be that he who has acquired them should go and reside there... (I)f one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them...*
