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Quotation from The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
“There have Laurence, many helde, and do holde this opinion, that there is no maner of thing, whiche lesse agreeth the one with the other, nor that is so much unlike, as the civil life to the Souldiours”
The Art of War, Proheme (dedication to Lorenzo Strozzi), trans. Peter Whitehorne (1560)
The opening of the dedication, stating the common opinion that the book will refute by uniting civil and military life.
Citation: "There have Laurence, many helde, and do holde this opinion, that there is no maner of thing, whiche lesse agreeth the one with the other, nor that is so much unlike, as the civil life to the Souldiours" — Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War, Proheme (dedication to Lorenzo Strozzi), trans. Peter Whitehorne (1560). (id the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, Santi di Tito, Public domain.
