Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

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For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

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