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Battles decide everything.
Blood is the price of victory
War is the province of danger.
War is politics by other means.
Knowledge must become capability.
The best form of defense is attack.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
War is merely a continuation of politics.
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.
War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
There is only one decisive victory: the last.
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
The best strategy is always to be very strong.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.
The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.
No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.
Only great and general battles can produce great results
Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.
The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.
In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.
There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.
Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.
In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.
There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.
Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.
War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.