This book by Machiavelli is structured as Socratic dialogue, with the central characters exchanging conversation throughout the text. The main argument that was made famously by von Clausewitz centuries later is that war is an extension and continuation of politics. I am only finished book one, but there were already some significant statements, some real yearnings of life how it used to be in classical antiquity. An example being this ''Cosimo: What are those things similar to the ancients that you would introduce? Fabrizio: To honour and reward virtue, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than public good, and other such things which could easily be added in these times''.
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