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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a… — Seneca the Younger
When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before… — Sun Tzu
Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. — Sun Tzu
Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. — Sun Tzu
The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the… — Sun Tzu
When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. — Sun Tzu
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. — Sun Tzu
There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice. — Po Bronson
When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor... — Niccolo Machiavelli
By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes,… — Sun Tzu
A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten… — Niccolo Machiavelli
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state… — Niccolo Machiavelli
No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
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… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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