...have no fear of God, and keep no faith with men." The soldiers were the condottiere's working captial and he did not want to waste them. As for the soldiers" "they have no love or other motive to keep than in the field beyond a trifling wage, which is not enough to make them ready to die for you." Battles...

...Machiavelli's distrust of mercenaries: "They are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless. . . . They have no love or other motive to keep them in...is not enough to make them ready to die for you"; 15. The two characterizations are not inconsistent. 9It should be said, however, that Hartle and Hackett...

...amongst enemies, they have no fear of God, and keep no faith with men . . . The cause of this is that they have no love or other motive to keep them in...which is not enough to make them ready to die for you.36 This argument is generally a valid and compelling one, but Michael Polanyi, with the last years...

...is postponed; in peace you are despoiled by them, and in war by the enemy. The cause of this is that they have no love or other motive to keep them in...which is not enough to make them ready to die for you. (Prince, chapter 12) Mercenaries are "ambitious" in exactly the sense that they are not committed to...

...with men. ... In peace you are despoiled by them, and in war by the enemy. The cause of this is that they have no love or other motive to keep them in...which is not enough to make them ready to die for you. They are quite willing to be your soldiers so long as you do not make war, but when war comes, it is...