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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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Military Historian
Military Officer
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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 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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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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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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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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The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.
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