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He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.
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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.
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From that day, I vowed never to squander a moment's care over the good opinion of others. May they rot in hell. You have heard of my abstemiousness in matters of food and sex. Here is why: I punished myself. If I caught my thoughts straying to another's opinion of me, I sent myself to bed without supper. As for women, I likewise permitted myself none. I missed no few meals, and no small pleasure, before I brought this vice under control.
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Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect
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When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and notcampaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars.
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Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!
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Warfare is theatre, I have said, and the essence of theatre is aritifce. What we show, we will not do. What we don't show, we will do.
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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses theinitiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defendmakes them timorous.
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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.
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A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.
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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
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