"A general is never to fight a battle if he does not have the advantage, or if he is not compelled by necessity...
Necessity comes when you see that if you do not fight you must surely lose, that, for instance, you lack money and there fore your army is certain to go to pieces; or that hunger is going to attack you; or that your enemy is expecting to increase his army with new men. In these instance you always fight, even if you are at a disadvantage, because it is much better to tempt Fortune when she possibly will favour you than, not tempting her, to face certain ruin. And it is a serious fault for a general not fight, in this case, as it is to have a chance to win and not to recognize it through ignorance or to let it slip through cowardice."
( Art of War, Book Four When to engage in battle by Niccoló Machivelli)
Be ever vigilante. Do what you must when you must. Take a fucking risk.
Machiavelli I am picking up what you are putting down.
Yeah, Ilove Niccolo,so did my dad...''The lion cannot protect himself from traps,and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps,and a lion to frighten wolves ''~Machiavelli
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