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Things Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
- Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
- All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque…
- The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect…
- In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on…
- In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they…
- Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
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