The last thing any prince wants to do is to have some captain have all the glory. That's the way to get himself ousted by said captain. Princes should always learn the art of war. Some of the French kings were not the greatest, well at least in some periods around the plague era, like when the English King captured the French King.
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"For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously!" - G.S.; F. Nietzsche
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