Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
A prince should suspect everything.
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.