The Principles of Fighting Author:Robert Sweet "One succeeds in this world only at the point of the sword," said Voltaire, "and one dies with weapons in one's hands." This being so, one must learn how to fight well. "The art of war," said Napoleon, "is an art with principles." Within lie these principles, illustrated by the lives of some of those who applied them best. Just as we read great ... more »writers to learn how to write well, so, too, should we study great fighters to learn how to fight well. "Truly, Caesar ought to be the breviary of every fighting-man," said Montaigne: "he was the true and sovereign model for the art of war." Not only Caesar, but also Richelieu, Talleyrand, Napoleon, and Gates are our breviaries here. All attained their objects in part by fighting, and all followed the same principles in fighting.« less