Machiavelli says of war: “This is the sole art proper to rulers.”
And similarly Ovid’s epideictic manual of lovemaking is founded on the principle that “love is a kind of war” (militiae species amor est). “I can love only when hurt,” the poet confesses (non-nisi laesus arno). And Machiavelli rounds out his politics by saying that it is better to be adventurous than cautious with Fortune, since Fortune is a woman, “and if you wish to keep her subdued, you must beat her and ill-use her.”
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