How the Characteristics of Families come to be perpetuated XLVII.

That love of his Country should lead a good Citizen to forget private wrongs XLVIII.

That on finding an Enemy make what seems a grave blunder we should suspect some fraud to lurk behind XLIX.

That a Commonwealth to preserve its Freedom has constant need of new Ordinances.

Of the services in respect of which Quintius Fabius received the surname of Maximus NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI TO ZANOBI BUONDELMONTI AND COSIMO RUCELLAI HEALTH.
I send you a gift, which if it answers ill the obligations I owe you, is at any rate the greatest which Niccolo Machiavelli has it in his power to offer.