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There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
Carl von Clausewitz
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Carl von Clausewitz
Age: 51 †
Born: 1780
Born: June 1
Died: 1831
Died: November 16
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Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
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We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
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There is only one decisive victory: the last.
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Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
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War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
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Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.
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The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.
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The best strategy is always to be very strong.
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