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In this way you have enemies in all those whom you have injured

in seizing that principality, and you are not able to keep those

friends who put you there because of your not being able to

satisfy them in the way they expected, and you cannot take strong

measures against them, feeling bound to them. For, although one

may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province

one has always need of the goodwill of the natives.