To: Sawdring
The Prince is really just Machiavelli's cliff-notes version of the Discourses. there are some dry parts in it, but many of the things that people misunderstood and excoriated him for are explained more thoroughly in the Discourses. He also wrote The Art of War, which I started and didn't finish for some reason I can't remember.
16 posted on
04/25/2002 8:39:37 PM PDT by
PsyOp
To: PsyOp
I have the Art of War but haven't read it yet. I have heard he borrows a bit from Vegetius in his Art of War but without reading it I'm not sure.
19 posted on
04/25/2002 9:14:10 PM PDT by
Sawdring
To: PsyOp
Sun Tzu .......art of war ?? or Machiavelli wrote one also ?!?!?!?!?
Hmmmm..... your depleating my read budget for this week bro....back to the book store in the AM for sure if he's written text of the same title.
Thanks for the great quotes. Do you collect em or have a secret stash of em somewhere you draw from ?
Stay Safe and again Thank You !
23 posted on
04/25/2002 11:53:49 PM PDT by
Squantos
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