A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.
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.
Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.
And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win.
Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.
Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
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