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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The first way to lose a state is to neglect the art of war; the first way to gain a state is to be skilled in the art of war.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
In peace one is despoiled by the mercenaries, in war by one's enemies.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Without doubt, ferocious and disordered men are much weaker than timid and ordered ones. For order chases fear from men and disorder lessens ferocity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
In war, discipline can do more than fury.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor ...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
... to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
... War is the sole art looked for in one who rules...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Men must either be caressed or else destroyed.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised ...
— Niccolo Machiavelli
