Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, commonly referred to simply as Vegetius, was a writer of the Later Roman Empire. Nothing is known of his life or station beyond what he tells us in his two surviving works: Epitoma rei militaris, and the lesser-known Digesta Artis Mulomedicinae, a guide to veterinary medicine. This long held conclusion, that nothing is known nor ever will be, has recently been challenged...
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military war discipline
In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.
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When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.
military valor
Valor is superior to number.
war military army
Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.
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A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.
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We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
army labor idleness
An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.
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The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
war desire should
Who would desire peace should be prepared for war.
war fighting soldier
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.