PART II WEALTH
CHAPTER 77
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ARMY
761. A well-organised and puissant army that feareth not danger is the first among the possessions of the prince.
762. It is only veterans that can hold out in desperate situations with grim determination, regardless of decimating attacks.
763. What though they roar even like the ocean? an army of rats will be annihilated at a single whiff of the cobra's breath.
764. That alone deserveth the name of army which knoweth no defeat, which is incapable of being corrupted, and which hath a long tradition of valour behind it.
765. That alone deserveth the name of army which can face valiantly even the God of Death if he should advance against it in all his fury.
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