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Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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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Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
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Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
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War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
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In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.
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The best strategy is always to be very strong.
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Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.
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To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'
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If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.
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The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.
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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
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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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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
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