Bartolomeo d'Alviano quotes

“You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way out of battle.”
-- Bartolomeo d'Alviano

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“What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh?”
-- Bartolomeo d'Alviano

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“Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.”
-- Bartolomeo d'Alviano

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“The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.”

“All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.”

“When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.”

“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”

Source : Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation

“So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.”

“We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.”

“We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”