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Quotation from The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
“those that fall sicke by chaunce, make them to bee cured of Phisicions: bicause a capitain hath no reamedie, when he hath to faight with sicknesse, and with an enemie: but nothing is so profitable, to maintaine the armie in health, as is the exercise”
The Art of War, Book VI, trans. Peter Whitehorne (1560)
The captain's duty to provide physicians and, above all, regular exercise to keep the army fit.
Citation: "those that fall sicke by chaunce, make them to bee cured of Phisicions: bicause a capitain hath no reamedie, when he hath to faight with sicknesse, and with an enemie: but nothing is so profitable, to maintaine the armie in health, as is the exercise" — Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War, Book VI, trans. Peter Whitehorne (1560). (id the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q7)
Portrait: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, Santi di Tito, Public domain.
