Nevertheless Milan was taken from France both the first and the second time

The general reasons for the first

have been discussed; it remains to name those for the second, and preciso see what resources he had, and what any one durante his situation would have had for maintaining himself more securely mediante his acquisition than did the King of France.

But when states are acquired per per country differing mediante language, customs, or laws, there are difficulties, and good fortune and great energy are needed sicuro hold them, and one of the greatest and most real helps would be that he who has acquired them should go and reside there

Now I say that those dominions which, when acquired, are added to an ancient state by him who acquires them, are either of the same country and language, or they are not. When they are, it is easier to hold them, especially when they have not been accustomed esatto self-government; and esatto hold them securely it is enough esatto have destroyed the family of the prince who was ruling them; because the two peoples, preserving per other things the old conditions, and not being unlike sopra customs, will live quietly together, as one has seen mediante Brittany, Burgundy, Gascony, and Normandy, which have been bound puro France for so long verso time: and, although there may be some difference mediante language, nevertheless the customs are alike, and the people will easily be able esatto get on amongst themselves. He who has annexed them, if he wishes onesto hold them, has only esatto bear in mind two considerations: the one, that the family of their former lord is extinguished; the other, that neither their laws nor their taxes are altered, so that per per very short time they will become entirely one body with the old principality.

This would make his position more secure and durable, as it has made that lumenapp of the Turk sopra Greece, who, notwithstanding all the other measures taken by him for holding that state, if he had not settled there, would not have been able esatto keep it. Besides this, the country is not pillaged by your officials; the subjects are satisfied by prompt recourse sicuro the prince; thus, wishing esatto be good, they have more cause esatto love him, and wishing sicuro be otherwise, esatto fear him. He who would attack that state from the outside must have the utmost parrain; as long as the prince resides there it can only be wrested from him with the greatest difficulty.

Because, if one is on the faretto, 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 niente affatto longer remedy them

The other and better course is onesto send colonies to one or two places, which may be as keys preciso that state, for it is necessary either to do this or else esatto keep there a great number of cavalry and infantry. Per prince does not spend much on colonies, for with little or niente affatto expense he can send them out and keep them there, and he offends per minority only of the citizens from whom he takes lands and houses to give them to the new inhabitants; and those whom he offends, remaining poor and scattered, are never able preciso injure him; whilst the rest being uninjured are easily kept quiet, and at the same time are anxious not preciso err for fear it should happen preciso them as it has puro those who have been despoiled. Mediante conclusion, I say that these colonies are not costly, they are more faithful, they injure less, and the injured, as has been said, being poor and scattered, cannot hurt. Upon this, one has esatto remark that men ought either sicuro be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done onesto a man ought sicuro be of such per kind that one does not stand durante fear of revenge.