Fall Quote by Michel de Montaigne

I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed,…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.

— Anonymous

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

— Charles Caleb Colton

While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to…

— Garth Nix

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

— Plutarch

If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

— Laozi

We are living in such sweetness that if kings knew about it, they would fight us over it with their swords.

— Ibrahim Bin Adham

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending…

— Benjamin Franklin

“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to…

— Thomas More

“Without doubt, princes become great when they overcome difficulties and hurdles put in their path. When fortune wants to advance a new prince... She…

— Niccolò Machiavelli