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There is only one decisive victory: the last.
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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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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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
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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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