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The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
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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Burg bei Magdeburg
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Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
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Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.
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Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.
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A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.
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War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
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War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.
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There is only one decisive victory: the last.
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The best strategy is always to be very strong.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
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War is the province of danger.
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A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
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Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
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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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The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.
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