Chapter 12
Mercenaries are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless; the cause of the ruin of Italy. The principal foundations of all states are good laws and good arms.
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Mercenary and auxiliary armies are useless and dangerous; a prince must rely on his own arms, for there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms.
Chapter 14
A prince should have no other object, nor any other thought, nor take anything else as his art but the art of war.
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