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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

BOOK I
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That one who has to contend with many, though he be weaker than they, will prevail if he can withstand their first onset XII.

A prudent Captain will do what he can to make it necessary for his own Soldiers to fight, and to relieve his Enemy from that necessity XIII.

Whether we may trust more to a valiant Captain with a weak Army, or to a valiant Army with a weak Captain XIV.

Of the effect produced in Battle by strange and unexpected Sights or Sounds XV.

That one and not many should head an Army; and why it is disadvantageous to have more leaders than one XVI.


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