The Sinews Of War Are

Men As A Whole Judge More With Their Eyes Than With Their Hands.

War Should Be The Only Study Of A Prince. He Should Consider Peace Only As A Breathing-time, Which Gives Him Leisure To Contrive, And Furnishes As Ability To Execute, Military Plans.

Many Have Imagined Republics And Principalities Which Have Never Been Seen Or Known To Exist In Reality; For How We Live Is So Far Removed From How We Ought To Live, That He Who Abandons What Is Done For What Ought To Be Done, Will Rather Bring About His Own Ruin Than His Preservation.

To Be Feared Is Much Safer Then To Be Loved.

Present Wars Impoverish The Lords That Win As Much As Those That Lose.